Keith David and Beau Knapp will play villains in Shane Black’s Nice Guys

By Sean Wist

Posted 11 years ago

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Shane Black's (IRON MAN 3, KISS KISS BANG BANG) 1970s LA noir piece, THE NICE GUYS, has found two villains in Keith David (CLOUD ATLAS, THE THING) and Beau Knapp (THE SIGNAL, SUPER 8). Keith David will play a seasoned hitman while Knapp will portray his younger, accident-prone, motormouth partner. The two will go up against a private eye (Ryan Gosling) and a hired leg breaker (Russell Crowe) who must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star.

While I can't speak for Knapp, Keith David has been a presence I've enjoyed in film since his John Carpenter days. He also provided a perfect voice for Spawn in the HBO animated series if you were fortunate enough to see it. Either way, David's voice paired up with Black's dialogue sounds like a match made in heaven. . . not that we needed another reason to look forward to this flick.

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