The new Sky original, Fuze, has just released a trailer. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars in the new action thriller with Theo James (Divergent), Sam Worthington (Avatar), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki), Elham Ehsas (The Kite Runner), Honor Swinton-Byrne (The Souvenir) and Saffron Hocking (Top Boy) making up the rest of the cast. Fuze comes from Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie.
Scripted by Ben Hopkins, who has previously written Simon Magus, Janice Beard, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, The Market, Lost in Karastan, Hasret: Sehnsucht, Marionette, In Search of Monsters, Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie, and Inside (2023), Fuze shows what happens when the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb at a London construction site sparks a mass evacuation as bomb disposal experts descend to defuse it. But the distraction also provides the perfect cover for a bank heist.
Mackenzie is producing the film alongside Gillian Berrie of Sigma Films and Sebastien Raybaud and Callum Grant of Anton. Anton is fully financing the film and Sky will handle the theatrical release in the UK and Ireland. The UK release is scheduled for April 3, but according to Deadline, Roadside Pictures and Saban picked the film up for distribution in North America for a planned release sometime in the Spring.
In addition to Hell or High Water, Mackenzie has previously directed The Last Great Wilderness, Young Adam, Asylum, Hallam Foe, Spread, Perfect Sense, Tonight You’re Mine, Starred Up, and Outlaw King.
Our Chris Bumbray got to see the film at its Toronto International Film Festival screening and gave it a glowing review, saying, “Like Relay, Fuze relies on a handful of twists and reversals, and Mackenzie delights in subverting audience expectations. The movie is peppered with action sequences, including some solid gunfights and sniper moments, while also maintaining a light touch with music cues that occasionally lean on the nose but work within the film’s pulpy tone.” He, then, added, “TIFF is usually divided cleanly into two sections. One is the awards fare put out by major studios, while the other is devoted to more commercial movies up for acquisition. Fuze is one of the latter, and while it wasn’t part of the Midnight Madness selection, it probably would have fit nicely, as it gave me a much-needed blast of action and tension amid all the heavier fare I’ve been watching. This would be a smart acquisition for a high-end streamer.”
