Gunpowder Milkshake Movie Storyline. In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Scarlet was cruelly forced to abandon her daughter Sam and go on the run. Years later, despite the estrangement, Sam has also grown up into a cold blooded hitwoman. After a high-stake mission spins out of control, putting an innocent 8-year-old girl in the middle of the gang war she has unleashed, Sam has no choice but to go rogue. This ultimately leads her back to her mother and her former hitwomen sidekicks, who all join forces in an avenging war against those who took everything from them.
Gunpowder Milkshake[a] is a 2021 action thriller film directed by Navot Papushado, with a script co-written by Ehud Lavski and Papushado. The film stars Karen Gillan as a young assassin who must team up with her estranged assassin mother (Lena Headey) and her former assassin colleagues (Carla Gugino, Michelle Yeoh, and Angela Bassett) in order to save a young girl (Chloe Coleman) from other assassins. Ralph Ineson, Adam Nagaitis, Michael Smiley, and Paul Giamatti also star.
The film’s production was announced at the American Film Market in 2018. Casting announcements were made throughout 2019, starting with Gillan in January, and principal photography took place from June to August 2019 in Berlin. It is a co-production between The Picture Company, Babelsberg Studio and StudioCanal’s German branch with the participation of French television channels Canal+ and Ciné+.
Gunpowder Milkshake was released in the United States on July 14, 2021, by Netflix with a simultaneous limited theatrical release. It was released theatrically by StudioCanal in France on July 21, and is set to be released in Germany on September 2, 2021. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
About the Story
In a flashback at a diner, 12-year-old Sam learns that her assassin mother, Scarlet, is skipping town after a job gone wrong. Armed men arrive to kill Scarlet, but she kills them and escapes, leaving an upset Sam behind.
Fifteen years later, Sam works as an assassin for Nathan, HR for the same firm Scarlet worked for. Nathan gives Sam a new job, killing a man who stole money from The Firm and returning the money. Sam goes to a weapons armory disguised as a library to exchange her weapons for new ones. There, she meets Anna May, Madeline, and Florence, three former accomplices of Scarlet; they consider killing her for showing up unannounced, but change their minds when they learn her identity. They provide her with clean weapons for the job.
Sam infiltrates a hotel room to retrieve the stolen money, and shoots the man responsible in the abdomen when he lunges for his ringing phone. Listening in on the call, it is revealed he stole the money to save his kidnapped young daughter, and is to bring it to a nearby bowling alley to exchange for her.
Sam takes him to a firm-affiliated private doctor for treatment, and agrees to handle the exchange herself. Nathan learns of her plan and sends three henchmen to stop her and retrieve the money; Sam deals with them before continuing with her plan. Masked men give her the girl, Emily, before retreating with the money; Sam pursues them, but the men turn on one another, resulting in their deaths and the destruction of the stolen money.
Meanwhile, Nathan learns that one of the henchmen Sam killed in an earlier job was the son of Jim McAlister, the head of a powerful criminal empire. To avoid conflict, Nathan gives up Sam’s information and location to be killed. Sam returns to the doctor to reunite Emily with her father, but they learn that he did not survive Sam’s bullet.
Nathan’s three henchmen are also at the doctor seeking treatment for their prior fight, and they receive orders to kill her. The doctor injects Sam with a serum that renders her arms useless; Sam asks Emily to tape a knife and a gun to her hands, and she uses them to fight and kill the three henchmen. More henchmen arrive, but Sam and Emily escape in Sam’s car, with Emily steering and Sam working the pedals.
Sam receives a text from Nathan, giving her the address to a safe house where she can find supplies to help her escape. She and Emily travel there and run into Scarlet, who reveals she has been watching Sam from afar all these years. When henchmen arrive to kill Sam, Scarlet guides them through a hidden escape route.
They manage to escape and return to the library, where the librarians angrily demand why Scarlet never tried to contact them when she disappeared. They are interrupted by arriving gunmen; Sam attempts to hold them off, but after she is overpowered, Scarlet intervenes to save her. The librarians consider fleeing with Emily, but they decide to join the fight.
Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
Directed by: Navot Papushado
Starring: Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Carla Gugino, Chloe Coleman, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, Paul Giamatti, Samuel Anderson, Ivan Kaye, Jack Bandeira, Anita Olatunji, Joshua Grothe
Screenplay by: Navot Papushado, Ehud Lavski
Production Design by: David Scheunemann
Cinematography by: Michael Seresin
Film Editing by: Nicolas De Toth
Costume Design by: Louise Frogley
Set Decoration by: Mark Rosinski
Art Direction by: Anna Bucher, Wolfgang Metschan, Stefan Speth
Music by: Haim Frank Ilfman
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Distributed by: Netflix (United States), StudioCanal (international)
Release Date: July 14, 2021 (United States), July 21, 2021 (France), September 2, 2021 (Germany)
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