Haywire
Short description
Mallory Kane is a former Marine who works as a freelance operative for a private firm, taking on assignments that governments would rather not acknowledge. After a rescue operation in Barcelona goes wrong, she finds herself cut off by the people who hired her and hunted by former colleagues. To stay alive and protect her family, she has to work out who set her up and settle the score.
Steven Soderbergh directed Haywire, his twentieth film in chronological order, following Contagion and preceding Magic Mike. Lem Dobbs wrote the screenplay, and Gina Carano, a mixed martial arts competitor, plays Mallory, heading a cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas and Ewan McGregor. The film was made for about 23 million dollars and took roughly 35 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 5.8 out of 10 from around 93,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 5.7 from about 1,500 votes, a narrower and less favourable sample. A critics' rating of 6.8 from 198 reviews places professional assessments noticeably above the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The role eventually played by Bill Paxton was initially offered to Dennis Quaid, but he had to decline due to commitments to other projects.
- Gina Carano underwent a six-week intensive training course, working with Aaron Cohen, a former member of the Israeli special forces. She spent three hours a day practicing stunts and another three hours a day in sessions with Cohen. Particularly difficult tactical training in surveillance and counter-surveillance lasted two weeks, during which Cohen and his team tracked the actress using a GPS transmitter installed in her car.
- According to Gina Carano, in the scene where she throws a vase at Michael Fassbender, she was supposed to miss, but she was worked up during filming and hit Fassbender right in the head.
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