Anthony Hopkins tracks a psychic serial killer in new trailer for Solace

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

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SOLACE originated from a script which was intended to be a sequel to SEVEN, but once that was determined to be a terrible idea, the script was rewritten to follow Dr. John Clancy (Anthony Hopkins), a retired physician who uses his psychic powers to assist a friend (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in solving a series of homicides. There's just one complication, the serial killer (Colin Farrell) is also psychic! Whaaat?! That's just crazy enough to be awful. After sitting on a shelf for several years, SOLACE will finally hit theaters next month and we've got a brand-new trailer to share with you!

"He's way ahead of us, and we're doing exactly what he wants us to do."

There's definitely a little DNA of SEVEN to be found in this trailer, but I highly doubt that it has what it takes to live up to that David Fincher classic; although, including Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in your cast definitely helps it to rise above the run-of-the-mill serial killer thriller.

The official synopsis for SOLACE:

When FBI Special Agent Joe Merriwether (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is unable to solve a series of homicides, he decides to enlist the help of his former colleague Dr. John Clancy (Anthony Hopkins), a retired physician with psychic powers. The reclusive Clancy, who shuttered his practice and retreated from the world following the death of his daughter and subsequent break-up of his marriage, wants nothing to do with the case. He soon changes his mind after seeing disturbingly violent visions of Joe’s partner, FBI Special Agent Katherine Cowles’s (Abbie Cornish) ultimate demise. When Clancy’s exceptional intuitive powers put him on the trail of a suspect, Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell), the doctor soon realizes his abilities are no match against the extraordinary powers of this vicious murderer on a mission.

SOLACE will be released on December 16, 2016.

Source: Lionsgate Premiere

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