Michael Keaton faces no shortage of obstacles as an aging assassin in the trailer for Knox Goes Away.
The trailer was released Wednesday for the thriller that features Keaton as director and star. The movie centers on Keaton as a hit man diagnosed with dementia who learns that his estranged son (James Marsden) needs help after committing a violent crime.
“I’ve never asked you for anything in my life,” Marsden says in the footage. “But I’m desperate.”
Later, Keaton acknowledges the reality of his deteriorating health: “It’s like a curtain coming down. I’m running out of time.”
Keaton directed the film from a script by Gregory Poirier. Marcia Gay Harden and Al Pacino co-star in the project that counts Nick Gordon, Trevor Matthews, Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta as producers.
Knox Goes Away premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and Saban Films is set to release it March 15.
In his review for The Hollywood Reporter, film critic Frank Scheck wrote that Keaton “delivers a terrific performance” but that the “convoluted storyline is too clever by far, and might have proved entertaining if the film had been intended as an absurdist black comedy.”
Keaton recently appeared in The Flash and is set to co-star in this year’s forthcoming sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Knox Goes Away marks his second feature as a director, following 2009’s The Merry Gentleman.
Marsden’s recent credits include the 2022 movie sequel Disenchanted, and he earned an Emmy nomination for his role in last year’s comedy series Jury Duty.
