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Ray Winstone in First Trailer for Big Screen Adaptation 'The Sweeney'

by Ethan Anderton
April 3, 2012
Source: MSN UK

The news of a big screen adaptation of the British TV series The Sweeney is obviously a bigger deal across the pond than it is in the United States, but we've been keeping an eye on the project (with a developing sequel) because it features of Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (aka rapper Plan B) as Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Detective Sergeant George Carter respectively, two members of the "Flying Squad," a branch of the Metropolitan Police specializing in armed robbery and violent crime in London. Hayley Atwell and Damian Lewis also star in the film and now we have the first trailer straight out of the UK.

Here's the first trailer for Nick Love's adaptation of The Sweeney, embedded from MSN UK:

Nick Love (The Football Factory) directed The Sweeney and co-wrote the screenplay with John Hodge (Trainspotting, The Beach) based on 1970's British TV series of the same name. Ray Wintsone and Ben Drew (aka rapper Plan B) play Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Detective Sergeant George Carter respectively, two members of the "Flying Squad," a branch of the police specializing in armed robbery and violent crime in London. The film hits the UK on September 21st, but doesn't yet have a US release date.

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http://twitter.com/El_MUERkO El_MUERkO

Spotted some footage from the day Top Gear spent ruining all the car chases
- Woody
  
  Turn the traction conrtol on! How Just hold the button for 10 seconds
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Nuno-Lopes/100001022192304 Nuno Lopes
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHqPPZw2p5U
    - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ5hK-D8kRQ Crapola
      
      Top gear is aids.
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        as in it's easy to catch and once you have it there's no getting rid of it? yeah it's pretty great in that way.
      - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ5hK-D8kRQ Crapola
        
        In that if untreated with severe medication it will cause blood to piss out your eyes and rot you inside out from your very core. I kind of wish Hammond died in that car crash. I've never watched it but I can't even stand looking at those fuckers.
- http://twitter.com/A5J4DX A5J4DX
  
  haha yeah that was the main thing going through my head while watching it lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ5hK-D8kRQ Crapola

If only the police were that exciting. They seem to spend most of the time in Greggs.
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The_Professional

This looks truly atrocious. No wonder it took so many years to get in to Production.
- Stevo the Magnificent
  
  It was originally going to be shot in 2008 with Danny Boyle's DNA Films production company making it for Fox Searchlight to the tune of £16m, but they decided not to do it because Fox thought it wouldn't sell outside the U.K. and Ireland where the original series is better known and remembered (and for good reason, it's the best Brit series ever, hands down), which is why the new one is an independently financed and produced movie with a much smaller £3.5m budget. It'll do well in the U.K. and Ireland based on nostalgia towards the original series, and it'll make it's money back alright, but that trailer is a little, well, 'meh', I was expecting something that actually looked like a movie rather than an extended television episode, still, I'm not judging it based on a mere trailer, it could yet turn out well...
  - Stevo the Magnificent
    
    Correction, the actual budget for the proposed 2009 version was actually $16m not £16m (about £8m or thereabouts), and Ray Winstone originally turned it down because he was too busy, so if the delay meant he was able to play Regan in this version, it was worth it, apparently there's a massive shootout in the middle of the film that takes place across downtown London, and has been compared to the bank robbery shootout in Michael Mann's 'Heat'...
Tonker

roll it in carpet an throw it in a lake where it belongs ......rubbish
beevis

i guess it looks watchable....but, wow........sure is a lot of cliches in this.
Lebowski

Well, if the Top Gear segment was anything to go by (and that might have been the worst fucking thing the lads have done in three or four years) then this will be some straight to dvd bullshit.
gruntmonster

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