Fizz & Ginger Films first feature film Two Down is set for release next week through Ourscreen in select cinemas. Directed by Matthew Butler Hart and executive produced by Stephen Fry and Sir Derek Jacobi, the film is a dark comedy about an injured hitman in his dying hours, and stars Tori Butler Hart and Alex Hassell (Suburbicon, The Miniaturist).
After surviving an explosion in Iraq, Mr. Thomas leaves the infuriating desk job the army had created for him and enters the underground world of the contract killer. His brother, Sam, had been caught selling on army secrets to the highest bidder and is now working for the illusive Harry Montagu. They use Mr. Thomas as a very effective way of eliminating problems they encounter in their business. That is until Mr. Thomas begins to question whom these problems are that he is removing, and why they deserve this fate.
We start the film with Mr. Thomas following a target, a young woman. All is not as it seems as she manages to fight him off long enough for someone in the shadows to shoot him in the back. Thinking him dead they walk away, leaving him to die in the alleyway. Mr. Thomas, surviving, but injured, manages to get to a safe house owned by a friend. When he arrives however his friend is no longer there but a young woman, Sophie. Through necessity he takes her, and the local takeaway delivery boy, hostage and waits for his partner to pick him up. Hours later he is still waiting and over the course of the evening, with the help of a bottle of whiskey and a Chinese takeaway, they slowly unravel the events of the evening to discover that Mr. Thomas was set up. Led by a very keen Sophie they try to work out by who and why.
But why is Sophie so eager to get to the bottom of the events of the evening? There is more than one mystery that Mr. Thomas has to solve, and he’s quickly running out of time.
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Two Down opens on January 15th in select cinemas and will be available through iTunes and Amazon simultaneously, and on Sky VOD from February.
Originally published January 11, 2018. Updated January 10, 2018.
