The Mustang star Matthias Schoenaerts, Aladdin villain Marwan Kenzari and Italian actor Luca Marinelli have signed on to join Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne in the action movie The Old Guard, Collider has learned. A co-production between Netflix and Skydance Media, The Old Guard follows a small, covert group of immortal mercenaries who must fight to keep their team together when they discover the existence of a new immortal and their extraordinary abilities are exposed. Theron is starring as The Old Guard's 6000-year-old team leader Andromache of Scythia (aka Andy), while Layne will play the squad'…

It's about time Matthias Schoenaerts becomes more widely known as a leading man. You might have caught some of his supporting performances in wide releases like Red Sparrow and The Danish Girl, but his latest project, The Mustang, is further proof that Schoenaerts is a true headliner because he delivers an unforgettable and wildly impressive performance in the film. He leads The Mustang as Roman Coleman, a convict who just got out of solitary confinement at a maximum security prison and is reentering the general population, a move that includes getting a job assignment. Roman is sent to the … The post Matthias Schoenaerts on ‘The Mustang’ and Re-Humanizing Humans through Animals appeared first on Collider.

Animal lover? Brace yourself for Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s feature directorial debut, The Mustang. As explained in the opening title cards, wild mustangs freely roaming the United States are being threatened by overpopulation, limited resources and also the privatization of public lands. As a form of population control, the federal government rounds up thousands of these mustangs a year, transports them to holding facilities and then some are euthanized. But, a few hundred of them are actually sent to prisons and there, they are trained by inmates and put up for sale at public auction. In The Mustang, we …