Only the trailer has been made public, which critics have branded ‘two straight minutes of cringe’ and ‘laughably amateurish’. As the film goes on it appears Spacey is a creepy hitman, because he is shown carrying a handgun and a sniper’s rifle.
Spacey, who has barely worked since leaving Netflix’s House of Cards 2017, plays Peter, a ‘charismatic man in a black sedan who shows up in a small mountainside community’ and co-stars with actress Rebecca De Mornay, star of The Hand That Rocks TheCradle.īut Ms De Mornay also becomes a love interest whom Peter targets for information at the urging of his ‘shadowy’ boss Mr Lock. Yet despite a court case in Britain now looming, the producers of Peter Five Eight - in which Spacey plays a villain - said today that the movie, debuted at Cannes last week, will still be released later this year because his ‘fans care more for the art than the scandal’. The Oscar-winning star, 62, has been accused of a string of sexual offenses in Britain by three men over eight years while he ran one of London’s most historic theatres, the Old Vic. Kevin Spacey’s new film will not be canned as its producers sensationally claimed the decision to charge him with carrying out sex attacks in the UK was ‘timed’ to scupper the movie’s release.
