“Broken City” trailer features Russell Crowe, Mark Wahlberg (video)

 December 25, 2012 - 18:18 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Mark Wahlberg’s going to be showing up in several films next year, beginning with the Noir crime-drama Broken City from director Allen Hughes (working without his brother, Albert, for the first time) and costarring Oscar-winners Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones, ScreenRant said.

The Broken City trailer foreshadows Wahlberg’s unscrupulous history and how it comes back to haunt him, after he’s hired for a dubious job by Crowe’s politician.

Wahlberg stars as Billy Taggart, a (former) respected New York police officer who now works as a private detective (with assistance from Natalie Martinez, End of Watch). Enter Crowe as NYC Mayor Nicholas Hostetler, an admired public figure who recruits Taggart to quietly investigate his wife (Zeta-Jones) and find out who she’s having an affair with. Taggart complies, but soon stumbles upon the truth – that he’s inadvertently become part of a much larger-conspiracy – and sets out to get some payback, once the conniving mayor attempts to blackmail Taggart into keeping his head down and mouth shut.

The Broken City cast is rounded out by Kyle Chandler (Zero Dark Thirty), Jeffrey Wright (The Ides of March), Barry Pepper (Snitch) and Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy). Meanwhile, screenwriting duties were handled by relative first-timer Brian Tucker, who Warner Bros. originally lined up to script the Sympathy for Lady Vengeance American remake – before Oscar-winner William Monahan (The Departed) took over that job instead.