Atomic Blonde is a 2017 American action thriller film based on the 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City. The film is directed by David Leitch, in his first solo directorial credit, and it is written by Kurt Johnstad. The cast includes Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, and Toby Jones. A sequel is in development and is expected to be released in 2018.
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Atomic Blonde is a 2017 American action thriller film based on the 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City. The film is directed by David Leitch, in his first solo directorial credit, and it is written by Kurt Johnstad. The cast includes Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, and Toby Jones. Atomic Blonde had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 12, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 28 by Focus Features. It grossed USD 100 million worldwide and received positive reviews from critics, who praised its action sequences, Theron’s and Mc Avoy’s performances, and the soundtrack. Many compared the film to the John Wick series, for which Leitch was an uncredited co-director and producer of the first film. A sequel is in development and is expected to be released in 2018. The plot follows a top-level MI6 spy who has to find a list of double agents who are being smuggled into the West on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In November 1989, just days prior to the collapse, MI6 agent James Gascoigne is shot and killed by KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin, who steals The List, a microfilm document that contains the names of every intelligence agent active in Berlin.
Ten days later, Lorraine Broughton is brought in to be debriefed by MI6 executive Eric Gray and CIA agent Emmett Kurzfeld about her just-finished mission to Berlin. Lorraine is dispatched to recover The List and is told to keep an eye out for Satchel, a double agent for the KGB who has been a problem for MI6 for years. In the debriefing, she finds out that the Stasi officer codenamed Spyglass, who gave The List to Gascoigna, also memorized the names on it. Loraine and Percival make plans to escort Spyglass across the border to West Berlin and rescue him when their car is rammed into a river by KGB agents. During the extrication, Spyglass drowns when the KGB agents clandestinely shoot him when they are unable to extricate him from the car. In a later scene, Loraine discovers the photographs taken by Lasalle and kills Lasalle, but Lorraine arrives moments later and takes The List out of Lasalle’s apartment and avenging her.
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