Peacock introduced on Wednesday that the motorbike crime thriller The Bikeriders, starring Emmy winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Academy Award nominee Austin Butler (Elvis) and Academy Award nominee Tom Hardy (The Revenant), will start streaming completely on the service on August 9.
Written and directed by Jeff Nichols, the filmmaker behind titles like Mud and Take Shelter, The Bikeriders is a fictional story impressed by the pictures of Danny Lyon and his 1967 guide The Bikeriders.
The movie captures a rebellious time in America when the tradition and folks have been altering. After an opportunity encounter at a neighborhood bar, strong-willed Kathy (Comer) is inextricably drawn to Benny (Butler), the most recent member of Midwestern motorbike membership the Vandals, led by the enigmatic Johnny (Hardy). Very like the nation round it, the membership begins to evolve, reworking from a gathering place for native outsiders right into a harmful underworld of violence, forcing Benny to decide on between Kathy and his loyalty to the membership.
Different forged members embody two-time Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon (George & Tammy), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Mike Faist (Challengers), and Norman Reedus (The Strolling Lifeless).
Sarah Inexperienced and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones produced via Tri-State, the corporate they share with Nichols, alongside Arnon Milchan. Fred Berger, Sam Hanson, David Kern, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer served because the movie’s government producers. Premiering on the 2023 Telluride Movie Pageant, the movie hit theaters through Focus Options in June, grossing over $34 million worldwide.
