Warner Bros. has moved the release date up by more than a month for the DC Vertigo movie The Kitchen which will now premiere August 9 of this year instead of September 20.
The August 9 release now sees The Kitchen battle Disney’s Artemis Fowl, Brian Banks, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Where’d You Go, Bernadette.
The September 20 release date actually had less competition as only Black and Blue and Downton Abbey are slated for a release on the day, so WB’s decision to move The Kitchen seems sort of odd. However, while it might seem Artemis Fowl would be its competition, The Kitchen isn’t your normal comic book movie, or DC movie for that matter, and may even be R-rated (update: the R-rating is confirmed).
The Kitchen follows the lives of Irish mobsters who team up to take over running the business after their husbands are arrested and sent to prison, directed by and written by Andrea Berloff based on the DC Comics Vertigo comic book by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle.
Details for the characters in the movie include:
- Melissa McCarthy is playing an adoring mother who leads the women’s charge to take over the business.
- Tiffany Haddish plays a woman willing to kill anyone in the way of her plan.
- Elizabeth Moss plays a timid wife of an abusive husband who falls in love with the violence of her new life.
- Margo Martindale is playing a woman who runs the Irish mob behind the scenes.
- Bill Camp plays the boss of a Brooklyn Italian crime family.
- Brian D’Arcy James plays McCarthy’s husband.
- Domhnall Gleeson is playing Gabriel O’Malley, an intense Vietnam vet who works for the neighborhood gangsters as a hitman before skipping town to avoid the police. He returns to settle scores when the wives take over.
“It’s about these individuals instead of the Mafia as an entity,” Melissa McCarthy previously said, who plays Kathy, a devoted mother of two whose initial reluctance to enter the criminal domain is eventually diminished by her deft abilities. “It was more about three people who are put down and held back finally breaking out. There was much more humanity to it, which also made it scarier.”
