No, these two films have nothing to do with one another outside of the fact I’m really not all that interested in seeing either of them, though if I had to choose I’d be stepping into Daniel Schechter‘s Life of Crime (Roadside; 8/29) well before Eli Roth‘s cannibal feature The Green Inferno.
I’ve included the new posters and the synopsis for each film below.
Based on Elmore Leonard’s novel “The Switch,” Life Of Crime is a dark caper comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey, Will Forte, Mark Boone Junior, Isla Fisher and Tim Robbins. The wife (Jennifer Aniston) of a corrupt real estate developer (Tim Robbins) is kidnapped by two common criminals (yasiin bey and John Hawkes), who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he’d actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and plot twists that could only come from the mind of Elmore Leonard.
The Green Inferno, directed, co-written, and produced by Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever), follows a group of student activists who travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished. The film comes to theaters everywhere on September 5th.
