Oliver Stone’s SAVAGES Now Opens July 6

Oliver Stone‘s next film, SAVAGES was supposed to open on September 28th, 2012 but Deadline reported that Universal has moved up the release date to July 6, 2012 on the same weekend as Sony’s giant, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Yikes! Good luck battling that one, Mr. Stone!..

In the Oliver Stone-directed SAVAGES, based on Don Winslow‘s novel, Aaron Johnson will play Ben and Taylor Kitsch will play Chon, they’re Laguna Beach best friends who are pot growers in Laguna and they’re also friends with a girl named O who has relations with each
And then they got visited by a drug enforcer named Lado to be played by Benicio Del Toro, who tells them they will have to work for his boss, a Mexican cartel matriarch. They say no, O gets kidnapped and next thing, they’re forced to come up with ransom money.

Blake Lively plays O
John Travolta plays a burned out DEA agent named Dennis
Uma Thurman plays O’s mom, Paqu.
Salma Hayek plays Mexican cartel queen-pin Elena
Joel David Moore plays a computer geek who moves on from a Washington think tank to the marijuana trade business.
Demian Bichir plays a two-timing attorney named Alex who works for Hayek’s character
Mia Maestro plays Del Toro’s wife, “a tough and bitter woman whose soccer mom lifestyle hides a gang-life past”
Also starring Emile Hirsch.
Scripted by Shane Salerno and Don Winslow, rewritten by Stone

Order the book today at Amazon, here’s its official synopsis according to Publishers Weekly..

Interpreting Winslow’s two Southern California beach-bum marijuana dealers–thoughtful philanthropist-environmentalist Ben and his ex-navy SEAL pal Chon–narrator Michael Kramer develops a laid-back, unruffled persona for the former and a harder-edge, restless attitude for the latter. He even manages an acceptably feminine, spacey voice for their mutual girlfriend, Ophelia. Kramer focuses on keeping a moderately fast pace for the trio’s witty dialogue, but when the Baja Mexico drug cartel led by its beautiful but vulnerable leader, Elena, demands a piece of their action, things speed up. And when the cartel kidnaps Ophelia and demands a million-dollar ransom, Kramer barely breathes in following the twists and turns devised by Winslow’s antiheroes, and matches the novel’s mood as it turns from wittily hip to dark and disturbingly violent.