Academy award-winning actors Morgan Freeman and Al Pacino are all set to share screen space with Oscar winner Helen Mirren and Oscar nominee Danny DeVito in a retirement-home-based film titled ‘Sniff’ (via Deadline). These powerhouse talents will be directed by veteran Oscar-winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford, who is known for making films like ‘Ray’, ‘The Devil’s Advocate’, and ‘Proof of Life’.
The film’s title ‘Sniff’ is an abbreviation for Senior Nursing Institute & Family Foundation. The plotline would revolve around the mysterious deaths of two residents of an affluent retirement community following which a former detective (Morgan Freeman) is brought back from retirement by his ex-partner (Danny DeVito). During their investigation, the detectives discover a hidden world of sex, drugs, and murder masterminded by Al Pacino and his female accomplice Helen Mirren.
‘Sniff’ is being touted as a reinvention of the film noir genre/style. For the unversed, the term ‘film noir’, which means ‘dark film’, is widely described as a filmmaking style usually associated with an anti-hero protagonist, femme fatale, concise dialogue, and high-contrast lighting, etc. Some modern examples of film noir are ‘No Country for Old Men’, ‘L.A. Confidential’, and ‘Memento’.
Regarding the film, the director Taylor Hackford had said that “I have always been a big fan of film noir but haven’t really made one, though I did make Against All Odds. The whole concept of setting a film noir in an upscale retirement community…these are proliferating all over the United States as the baby boomer generation gets to retirement. There’s a lot of money, and people want to live in a beautiful setting. Those are on the brochures, but what Tom Grey (writer) did was show what was lurking below the surface.”
‘Sniff’ is expected to commence production by early next year and is slated to release somewhere at the end of 2022.
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