At the 81st Venice International Film Festival, Justin Kurzel presents, in competition, “The Order“.
With Jude Law as lead actor and co-producer, the film is based on the book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, a chronicle of the rapid rise and fall of a group of disaffected young white men.
Producer Bryan Haas and screenwriter Zach Baylin came across this provocative story and got inspired by a real-life terror plot led by Robert Jay “Bob” Mathews, a longtime member of the neo- Nazi group Aryan Nations.
Justin Kurzel, who had impressed the producing team pair with his talent for visual storytelling in the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or nominee “Nitram“, was asked to direct after a conversation with lead actor and producer Jude Law.
The director points out that, even though it is a film that follows the rules of the thriller genre, “family is the theme that plays through all the characters”.
Plot
For over a year, a series of bold daylight bank robberies and armored car heists leaves law enforcement baffled and the public panicked throughout the Pacific Northwest. As the attacks become increasingly violent, FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) becomes convinced that the robberies are the work of domestic terrorists that plan to use the loot to finance an armed uprising against the U.S. government.
Based on a true story, The Order follows Husk and his team into the tangled world of white supremacists as they try to head off a violent uprising that could shatter the nation. As the militia builds a war chest of over $4 million, Husk pursues the malevolent racist Bob Mathews to a final bloody standoff that will go down in U.S. history.
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