Stefano Sollima, the Italian director of “Without Remorse,” starring Michael B.
Jordan as Navy Seal John Kelly, says he likes to “tell stories that are about real humans; not superheroes.” Sollima’s latest film, an adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel, finds the “Black Panther” star pursuing justice and unleashing hell in a high-octane spectacle that launches globally on Amazon Prime on April 30.Realism has been Sollima’s signature since breaking out internationally with naturalistic Neapolitan mob TV series “Gomorrah,” followed by hyper-violent but humanistic “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” his first major studio feature, and cocaine-smuggling skein “ZeroZeroZero,” which tracks a shipment of drugs from multiple perspectives across three continents.When Jordan’s then-producer Alana Mayo contacted Sollima about directing “Without Remorse,” he asked her to find out if “Michael B” was “ready to shoot a film in which all the action is actually done by him,” says the director.
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