Clearly the marketing team behind Hotel Artemis didn't get the memo that posters traditionally arrive before trailers. Still, here we are, with the first one-sheet showing its face a week or so after the footage launched.
The film marks the full-length directorial debut of Iron Man 3 co-writer Drew Pearce, who has warmed up to this point with music videos, short films and the Ben Kingsley-starring Marvel One-Shot IM3 follow-up All Hail The King.
Set in a future Los Angeles, the venue of the title is a hospital within a 1920's-styled hotel that caters to the worst of the worst. That is, criminals who can afford the rates and are willing to follow the rules. Run by a quirky, steel-spined manager known as The Nurse (Jodie Foster), it'll patch up gangsters, killers and bank robbers without fear of repercussions.
One night as a violent riot rages on the streets of Los Angeles, legendary crime boss Orian Franklin, aka Niagara (Jeff Goldblum), arrives needing immediate treatment after a failed attempt on his life. Niagara’s sudden arrival creates a violent clash among the criminals in the hospital, with one ‘patient’ having a particularly deadly motive for checking into the hotel. The Nurse makes a decision that could jeopardize the future of the ER and everyone in it. Now the safest place for criminals in the city has become the most dangerous...
Hotel Artemis will open its doors to UK cinemas on 20 July, and the trailer is below.
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