"Fight or Flight" Trailer: Josh Hartnett Battles Assassins in the Sky in This Wild, Adrenaline-Fueled Action Thriller
Trapped 35,000 feet in the air with a plane full of assassins, Hartnett goes full berserker—with a chainsaw—in this high-octane thriller from the producers of John Wick.
Okay, remember that movie Snakes on a Plane? Well, this is kind of like that—except swap out the snakes for highly trained, deadly assassins who are all out to get Josh Hartnett. And let’s just say, he’s had it with these muthaf-ing assassins on this muthaf-ing plane!
From the producers behind the John Wick franchise comes what looks like another wildly kinetic, adrenaline-pumping action bonanza, where Josh Hartnett must fend off an entire flight packed with professional killers—triggering his ultimate “Fight or Flight” mode.
Hartnett, who earned acclaim last year for his turn as a psychopathic dad in M. Night Shyamalan’s cornball, pop concert-set horror thriller Trap, continues his—dare we say—comeback journey with this new feature project, which might just be his most all-out, shamelessly action-driven romp yet. But it's not like Hartnett hasn’t proven to be a magnetic unlikely hero before; certainly, he was the one we rooted for in films like The Faculty, Black Hawk Down, and 30 Days of Night.
In Fight or Flight, Hartnett plays a fugitive mercenary who’s been laying low in an undisclosed Indonesian hideout, evading authorities by living the lowlife as a bleach-blonde barfly with a taste for Hawaiian shirts and stiff drinks. But after years in exile, he’s had enough. Ready to return home, he brokers a deal with some very powerful people—on one condition: he must board a plane and capture a high-value target alive.
But he soon realizes the plane is packed with professional contract killers, and his target? A notorious assassin. What was supposed to be a routine extraction turns into an airborne bloodbath, as some of the world’s deadliest killers are now trapped together—35,000 feet in the air.
Now Hartnett must survive long enough to capture his target and earn his shot at freedom. The problem? He’s drunk—and the alcohol is starting to wear off. The solution? He just got his hands on a chainsaw. Now it’s really game on.
Fight or Flight is directed by James Madigan, a visual effects supervisor who has worked on such films as Iron Man 2 and G.I. Joe: Retaliation. This marks his feature directorial debut.
Joining Hartnett in the mayhem is a cast that includes Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), Charithra Chandran (Bridgerton), Julian Kostov (Shadow and Bone), and Chilean martial artist Marko Zaror (Mirageman).
Produced by Basil Iwanyk, founder of Thunder Road Films, which is behind such hits as Sicario, The Town, Greenland, and the John Wick franchise.
Fight or Flight is coming to U.S. theaters this summer, opening May 9th. Watch the new U.S. trailer, above.
Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
A mercenary takes on the job of tracking a high-value asset known only as The Ghost on an international flight. Realizing the plane is filled with assassins assigned to kill them both, the pair must work together in a fight for their lives.
