SkyShowtime, the newest streaming platform launched in Romania, made an announcement on Monday that appears to be copied from the Netflix “playbook”: it will release a “blockbuster” movie starring Kiefer Sutherland this Christmas to attract viewers. in front of small screens.

It is about Kane’s mutiny court-martiala legal drama that follows a senior US Navy officer who is tried for mutiny after his captain shows signs of mental instability that endangers the lives of his crew.

The film, which premieres on SkyShowtime on December 23, is based on the novel Dog riot published in 1951 and which won the American writer Herman Wouk the Pulitzer Prize for fiction a year later. Although fictional, the novel is based on Woake’s experiences as an officer aboard two minesweepers during World War II in the Pacific theater.

The American author’s novel was also adapted into a screen in 1954, when the titan of cinema, the American actor Humphrey Bogart, played the main role of Captain Philip Francis Quigg.

The new film stars Kiefer Sutherland as Captain Queeg, who headlines a cast that also includes Jason Clarke. (Oppenheimer), Jake Lacy (White lotus), Monica Raymond (Chicago Fire), Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick) or Lance Reddick (John Wick).

The genre of the film and its plot will certainly remind the viewer of a classic feature film – the film A few good men since 1992 with Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore and Kevin Bacon.

Kiefer Sutherland also played a rather important role in the feature film, released more than 30 years ago, which gave us one of the most iconic scenes in the history of modern cinema:

“The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” SkyShowtime’s proposed competitor to Netflix’s Christmas movie

The announcement made on Monday by SkyShowtime, the streaming platform launched in Romania and other European countries on February 14 this year with the cheapest subscription on the market, came as a total surprise, as Kane’s mutiny court-martial was not on the list of titles scheduled for release in December.

All streaming platforms, from Netflix to HBO Max and Disney+ or SkyShowtime, usually announce a few days before the end of the month the movies and series that will be released during the next month.

Despite the fact that the premiere took place on September 3 at the Venice International Film Festival, Kane’s mutiny court-martial it was also not released theatrically, but was produced by the US company Showtime Networks for streaming.

The decision looked even more strange, since the director’s chair of the feature film was the American director William Friedkin, director of such films as French connection, Exorcist, To live and die in Los Angeles or 12 angry men (1997).

Kane’s mutiny court-martial it also turned out to be the last film of Friedkin’s career, who died on August 7 at the age of 87, almost a month before the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

All these things considered, the people at SkyShowtime, the streaming platform launched in Europe by the conglomerate that owns the Universal and Paramount film studios, seem to have been inspired by a page from the “handbook” of Netflix, which in recent years has accustomed customers to release a blockbuster movie at Christmas to lure them to screens at a time when most of the world is off.

If in 2021 it was about Don’t look up and last year Glass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryNetflix will be out on Christmas this year Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Firefilm directed by Zack Snyder.

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