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Mark Wahlberg and LaKeith Stanfield team up to pull off a major heist in their new action movie.
On Tuesday, Aug. 26, Prime Video released the trailer for Play Dirty, in which Wahlberg, 54, stars as a professional thief who recruits a new team in an attempt to rob a treasure recently recovered from the depths of the ocean.
The movie’s cast also includes Rosa Salazar, Keegan-Michael Key, Chukwudi Iwuji, Nat Wolff, Thomas Jane and Tony Shalhoub.
“Parker (Wahlberg), along with Grofield (Stanfield), Zen (Salazar) and a skilled crew stumble onto a score that pits them against the New York mob in this gritty, clever caper,” teases a synopsis, which describes Wahlberg’s Parker as “an expert thief [who] rolls out the biggest heist of his life.”
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Play Dirty is directed by Shane Black (The Nice Guys, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), who co-wrote the script with Charles Mondry (Road House) and Anthony Bagarozzi. The movie is based on the Parker book series by Donald E. Westlake, who published a series about the character under the pseudonym Richard Stark.
Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan Downey are executive producers on the movie. Downey, 60, worked with director Black on 2013’s Iron Man 3.
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Play Dirty is Wahlberg’s second action movie of the year. In January, he starred in the Mel Gibson-directed thriller Flight Risk. Stanfield most recently appeared on the big screen in 2023’s The Book of Clarence and on the small screen in Apple TV+’s The Changeling the same year. Stanfield will next appear this fall opposite Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence in Die My Love.
Play Dirty is on Prime Video Oct. 1.
