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Freelance (2023)

An ex special forces operator takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but, a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive.

Freelance
Freelance
R
Action
Comedy
Release Date
October 27, 2023
Director
Pierre Morel
Runtime
1hr 49min
Main Genre
Action
Studio
AGC Studios, Endurance Media, Sentient Entertainment
Writers
Jacob Lentz

Summary

Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettits (John Cena) is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington (Alison Brie) as she interviews the ruthless-but impeccably dressed-dictator, Juan Venegas (Juan Pablo Raba). When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle AND each other in order to make it out alive. From Pierre Morel the dynamic director of TAKEN and PEPPERMINT, FREELANCE is written by Jacob Lentz and is a Relativity Media Production.

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