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In April, Karl Urban will officially conclude his time in The Boys with the release of Season 5. Before that, however, he and Priyanka Chopra Jonas are getting their own gritty, swashbuckling adventure on the streaming platform with the movie The Bluff. Esquire exclusively shared the first images from the epic new film today, teasing a more brutal, R-rated spin on a pirate tale that sounds more like the setup for a mafia film. At the center is Chopra Jonas's Ercell Bodden, a former pirate trying to leave her old life behind until her former crew tracks her down and attacks her for abandoning their ranks and stealing away with a stash of their gold, too. It's set to premiere on February 25.
Set in the late 1800s, The Bluff takes place after the heyday of thieving buccaneers on the high-seas as outlaws struggle viciously to maintain their hold and way of life. Ercell was once among the most brutal, earning the nickname "Bloody Mary," which makes a ton of sense when looking at images her ferociously leaping at Urban's Captain Connor or aiming her weapon while covered in blood. Jonas studied real historical female pirates to get a sense of the reality behind her character and ensure the film represented the scary and violent truth behind piracy rather than the often-glamorized fiction featured in films like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Though she's tried to turn over a new leaf, she's more than willing to slip back into those old, brutal ways to fight for her family, home, and freedom.
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