Netflix has premiered the trailer for the kidnap action-thriller “Lou” which sees Oscar and Emmy winner Allison Janney getting her own action vehicle.
Lou (Janney) is a woman with a mysterious past living on the San Juan islands. She finds her quiet life interrupted when a desperate mother (Jurnee Smollett) begs her to save her daughter (Ridely Asha Bateman) who has been kidnapped by her abusive ex-boyfriend (Logan Marshall-Green)
As a massive storm rages, the two women risk everything in a deadly rescue mission through the wilderness, testing their limits and exposing dark and shocking secrets from their pasts.
German-American director Anna Foerster (“Underworld: Blood Wars,” “Outlander”) directs from a script by Maggie Cohn (“The Staircase”) while J.J. Abrams produces.
Janney trained extensively with fight choreographer Daniel Bernhardt at 87Eleven (“John Wick,” “Atomic Blonde”). “Lou” will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd.
