‘Gunpowder Milkshake’: How Rubens Inspired That Lion Painting in the Assassin’s Library

In Netflix’s new action-thriller “Gunpowder Milkshake,” the library is a central feature of the film.

It serves as a resource for the assassins who are being hunted, and the assassins who are doing the hunting.Karen Gillan stars as Sam, the rogue assassin in question.

When she goes on her mission, one stop she makes is to the library, run by Madeleine.

Also working in the library are Florence (Michelle Yeoh) and Anna May (Angela Bassett).

But they’re no ordinary librarians.

They supply weapons.

And the books are no ordinary books — they conceal weapons.The library also features at the center of a finale shoot-out.

Production designer David Scheunemann says that once it was established the library would be its own character, “we decided not to do your average library.

It would define the space and the librarians.”The LibraryThe interior was inspired by so much, but

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