There are really some good British actors who remain relatively unknown in the US until they are discovered in some major movie/TV series. I could name quite a few namely James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender (X-Men) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock). Another British actor, Richard Armitage, won me over when he first appeared in a BBC miniseries, North & South, in 2004 (please refer to my post dated 30th Jan 2014 on British Period Dramas on Blu-Ray). Since then, he has appeared in a few British series Robin Hood, Spooks, Strike Back and more recently in the movie The Hobbit. This versatile actor will now be appearing in the lead role of an upcoming major US summer film, Into The Storm, which will premiere on 8/8/2014. The movie is basically about a town being hit by tornadoes. Although I'm not a fan of disaster films, I might give this movie a try just to see how Mr Armitage fares in it :).
Full Length Trailer Courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures
Addendum (5th May, 2024) : If you interested in this movie, it is now available on dvd, blu-ray and Amazon Prime (links provided below). By the way, I am currently watching a new 6 part British TV Series from ITV 'Red Eye' which stars Richard Armitage and Jing Lusi about a British man who is extradited to China on suspicion of murder. The series looks promising enough so I have decided to include the trailer for it below. Prior to this series, I managed to catch this prolific actor in the 2022 movie 'The Man from Rome' by Sergio Dow which is about a priest investigating a hacker infiltration into the Vatican that eventually leads him to a church in Spain.
Trailer courtesy of Serienjunkies
Into The Storm 2014 (Amazon Prime) (paid link)
Into The Storm 2014 Blu-Ray (Amazon US) (paid link)
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