Welcome To The Punch is the second feature from Shifty writer-director Eran Creevy and producers Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh.  The film focuses on the relationship between detective Max Lewinsky and Ex-criminal Jacob Sternwood, focusing on the moment Jacob’s son is involved in a heist gone wrong, forcing him to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway.  This gives Max another chance to take down the man he’s always been after, a man who has humiliated and physically scarred him. With the two men set on an unremitting collision course, they come across a deeper conspiracy that they will both need to solve in order to survive.

Written and directed by BAFTA nominated Eran Creevy (Shifty), Welcome To The Punch is a crime-thriller shot in and around the modern city-scapes of London including the banking centre of Canary Wharf and the city’s rejuvenated East End. The film stars James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class, Wanted, Atonement, The Last King Of Scotland), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), and Andrea Riseborough (W.E.), along with Peter Mullan (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Tyrannosaur), David Morrissey (Nowhere Boy, The Other Boleyn Girl), Daniel Mays (Shifty) and Johnny Harris (The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus).

Welcome To The Punch is produced by Between The Eyes’ Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken, with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones. Ridley Scott and Liza Marshall executive-produce for Scott Free London while Momentum Pictures’ MD Xavier Marchand, Founder and CEO of IM Global Stuart Ford, Christopher Woodrow and Molly Conners at Worldview Entertainment also executive produce. Worldview Entertainment, Quickfire Films, the BFI’s Film Fund and Automatik are co-financiers.

 

Classification 14

 

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