Savages

Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2012
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Director: Oliver Stone
Sound: SDDS, Datasat, Dolby Digital
Writing by: Shane Salerno – (screenplay) &
Don Winslow – (screenplay) &
Oliver Stone – (screenplay)
Don Winslow – (novel)
Produced by: Todd Arnow – executive producer
Evan Bates – associate producer
Moritz Borman – producer
Eric Kopeloff – producer
Shane Salerno – executive producer
Fernando Sulichin – executive producer
Cast: Blake Lively – O
Taylor Kitsch – Chon
Aaron Johnson – Ben
Jana Banker – Volleyball Girl
Candra Docherty – Grow House Girl
Patrick Fourmy – Marijuana Distributor
Gary Stretch – Badass Biker
Benicio Del Toro – Lado
Diego Cataño – Esteban
Shea Whigham – Chad
Karishma Ahluwalia – Chad's Girlfriend
Music: Adam Peters
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Plot Outline:
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Plot: Entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable marijuana producer, and friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL, run a lucrative, homegrown industry – raising some of the best weed ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town… until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC, Elena and her enforcer, Lado, underestimate the unbreakable bond of the three friends, Ben and Chon – with the reluctant assistance of a dirty DEA agent – wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high stakes, savage battle of wills.
Movie Quotes:
Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Garrett Hedlund and James Franco were considered to play Ben.
- Jennifer Lawrence was originally cast as O, but pulled out in order to star in The Hunger Games. Before Blake Lively was cast, Olivia Wilde, Abbie Cornish, Amber Heard and Teresa Palmer were considered, and Lindsay Lohan expressed interest.
- Oliver Stone began working on the screenplay adaptation before the book was published. So confidant he was of this story that he himself contributed to investing in the project.







