Published On Mar 12, 2016
What are you worth?
What happens when you take a dash of Love/Hate, a pinch of Game Of Thrones and throw in a sprinkling of Fight Club and the global economic crash?
Well, a really terrible-tasting cake probably and an even worse analogy for new Irish thriller, Traders.
Traders, written and directed by Rachael Moriarty & Peter Murphy, stars friend of JOE, Killian Scott (Love/Hate, Calvary, ’71) and John Bradley (Game of Thrones, Shameless), and is in cinemas now.
This new Irish film tells the story of Harry Fox (Scott), a young Dublin-based businessman who seems to have it all; the luxury apartment, the fancy car, the ridiculously-chiselled abs.
When the company he works for goes bust, however, it looks like he will lose everything.
Step forward Vernon Stynes (Bradley), a colleague offering a solution through his diabolical, all-or-nothing scheme based in the Deep Web, called Trading; two strangers empty their banks accounts, sell their assets, put their entire worth in cash into a green sports bag.
They travel to a remote location and fight to the death. Winner buries the loser and walks away twice as rich.
Great craic altogether.
Vernon believes trading is a no-brainer for anyone who wants to get rich quick. Can Harry resist the lure of a such a high risk gamble?
It’s dangerous, it’s illegal, but it could solve all his problems.
We caught up with the much more law-abiding Killian and John to find out who would win in a fight in real life, we see how well they know their Westeros and West Dublin geography, and watch out for the moment where things get pretty dark, pretty quickly.
Enjoy...