Jonathan Glazer directed the Oscar nominated Sexy Beast in 2000. The stand out performance was by Ben Kingsley as hotheaded gangster Don Logan. He tried to tempt retired criminal Gal Dove back from Spain for a bank robbery.
This prequel is set in the early 1990s with flashbacks to the 1970s. This is Gal and Don the early years. They are in the lower rungs of the ladder, working for well heeled gangster Teddy Bass.
The first episode has them trying to steal a valuable coin. A task that looks impossible but there was a witness after the event. A security guard.
Gal is ordered to kill the guard but he is not a killer. The volatile Don is ready to step up to the task.
Sexy Beast is a prequel that no one asked for. Most people do not remember the original movie. This not The Offer, Paramount's making of The Godfather.
I understand this was a troubled production. A dull story was pumped up with sex and sleaze. Some of that is evident in the first episode.
This prequel is set in the early 1990s with flashbacks to the 1970s. This is Gal and Don the early years. They are in the lower rungs of the ladder, working for well heeled gangster Teddy Bass.
The first episode has them trying to steal a valuable coin. A task that looks impossible but there was a witness after the event. A security guard.
Gal is ordered to kill the guard but he is not a killer. The volatile Don is ready to step up to the task.
Sexy Beast is a prequel that no one asked for. Most people do not remember the original movie. This not The Offer, Paramount's making of The Godfather.
I understand this was a troubled production. A dull story was pumped up with sex and sleaze. Some of that is evident in the first episode.