‘My Spy’ trailer: Dave Bautista meets match in savvy nine-year-old
ACTION comedy ‘ My Spy’ is homing in on a 2019 release date with its first trailer, in which Dave Bautista’s hulking CIA operative JJ has to contend with a nine-year- old girl who captures a covert meeting on her smartphone.
For him, agreeing to become her spy mentor is one way of keeping tabs on her family, while she learns how to walk away from explosions without looking back and, it would seem, generally outsmart him at every turn.
Still, while she gets a (very) big friend who looks out for her in a tough world, he gets someone to teach him how to relate to the world on a more personal if not vulnerable level.
Dave Bautista comes to the movie from the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and ‘Avengers’ movies, ‘ Blade Runner 2049’ and James Bond film ‘Spectre’, having moved into acting after ten years as part of the WWE entertainment wrestling business.
He co- stars alongside Chloe Coleman of hit TV crime thriller ‘Big Little Lies’ as the precocious Sophie.
Also seen in the trailer are Ken Jeong of ‘ The Hangover’, ‘ Ride Along 2 and ‘ Crazy Rich Asians’ as Bautista’s CIA boss Kim and Kristen Schaal of ‘ Gravity Falls’, ‘ Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ and ‘Flight of the Conchords’ as his spy accomplice.
Ken Jeong of ‘The Hangover’, ‘Ride Along 2 and ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ stars as the CIA boss Kim.
Parisa Fitz- Henley of ‘ Luke Cage’, ‘Jessica Jones’ and ‘Harry & Megan: A Royal Romance’ plays Sophie’s mom and CIA target Kate.
Director Peter Segal has been returning to the spy comedy niche since 1994’s ‘ Naked Gun 33 1/3’, via Presidential corruption caper ‘My Fellow Americans’ and Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway’s ‘Get Smart’.
The movie was written by Erich and Jon Hoeber of ‘ Battleship’, ‘ The Meg’ and an upcoming ‘ Naruto’ adaptation. — Relaxnews