The Day Shall Come - new film from Chris Morris & Jesse Armstrong

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While watching the new Alan Partridge we were wandering what Chris Morris had been up to lately and it turns out he's made a new film, written with Jesse Armstrong of Peep Show fame.
There don't seem to be any trailers or a posters for it but apparently it's being shown at South By Southwest festival today so hopefully will get a release soon.

The Day Shall Come (2019) - IMDb

 

[Argonia]

Yay!

 

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Guardian review
The Day Shall Come review – Chris Morris returns with wild farce

 

[Ming]

He's a genius.

 

[chilango]

Looking forward to this if it's half as good as four lions

 

[Micro]

Looking forward to this if it's half as good as four lions

Four Lions was brilliantly funny and sad.
Wasn’t it originally supposed to be a TV series?

 

[editor]

Can't wait for this!

 

[Argonia]

Trending today at Twittter, the trailer is out for this.

 

[elbows]

Oh my!

Chris Morris is back with incendiary satire The Day Shall Come

“Breaking news! The US Attorney General is announcing the sensational arrest of an army based in Miami, about to launch a full ground war on America. The FBI had saved the Nation. The world could sleep well tonight. ‘A full ground war’? I am shocked.

“Two years later in Washington DC I met a witness from the resulting trial and discovered this terrifying coup would have been pulled off by seven construction workers riding into Chicago on horses. The idea was a fantasy, spun to make money. They had no guns – and no horses. An FBI informant had offered them $50,000 to attack America. They were broke, so they riffed ideas until he was happy. They claimed they could knock over the Seers Tower, swamp the city with a tidal wave, and seize control by riding in like cavalry.

“The government presented it as an Al Qaeda plot bigger than 9/11. These guys weren’t even Muslims, they were Haitian Catholics. It took three trials to find them guilty. They were all jailed as terrorists.

“I discovered this was not a freakish one off. Since 9/11 it has become Standard Operating Procedure. Informants encourage a Person of Interest to break the law and when they do, the FBI arrest them. Each plan is put together with the federal attorney. Arrest is delayed until the case will play in court. So the conviction rate is 98 per cent. The typical sentence is 25 years.

“Investigating AG Gonzales’ international lie took me all over America. I met families of people who’d been jailed, their lawyers, FBI informants, prosecutors, police, sheriffs and FBI agents. I discovered the legal technicalities and the workplace dynamics. I got to know neighbourhoods and people in places like Detroit, Orange County, Chicago and Washington DC.

 

[elbows]

Uranium?
It'l put hair on your chest, and make em fall off.

 

[editor]

Policeman: "Unarmed white man, unarmed black man... which one is more likely to have the gun...."