“The Beekeeper” is part of a larger picture. That is to say, “The Beekeeper” is a 27-minute first installment of what writer and director Sean J.S. Jourdan (“An Open Door”) is intended to be a feature-length project.
At this time, “The Beekeeper” is Jourdan's master's thesis film as he finishes his degree in Film and Video. Already an award-winning writer/director and a top 5 finalist in the MTVu Best Filmmaker on Campus competition, “The Beekeeper” offers further proof that Jourdan is a filmmaker to watch in the future.
Director: David Ayer
Writer: Kurt Wimmer
Stars: Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi
“The Beekeeper” is the story of Robin (Michelle Mueller, “The Break Up”), a young woman who is having an affair with the father of her boyfriend, Phil (Michael Joseph Thomas Ward, “Blue Car”) when she ends up pregnant. . When Phil rejects her, Robin turns to her boyfriend, William (Joseph Bicicchi, “The Express”), setting in motion Phil's wife (Oksana Fedunszyn, “The Fugitive”), who discovers the truth.
On a farm in western Massachusetts, retired beekeeper Adam Clay (Jason Statham) eliminates a nest of hornets that threaten his colonies. Just as he protects the bees from him, he also cares for Eloise Parker (Phylicia Rashad), a retired teacher on whose land she runs her beekeeping business. He has a very friendly relationship with the widow, she is the only one who has taken care of Adam and is grateful to her for bringing life back to her garden, which was full of weeds.
Eloise has worked hard all her life and has been able to save a good amount of money, but when she goes to check her online account, a message appears saying that her hard drive is infected with viruses. In good faith and unknowingly, she calls the hotline provided and is severely scammed by the operator on the other end. When she realizes that she has been the victim of fraud and has lost all of her savings, she is triggered by shame.
Adam decides to avenge her death and visits the criminals' call center, disrupting and then setting the place on fire. A setback for Wallace Westwyld (Jeremy Irons), head of security and former head of the CIA, who learns from his successor Janet Harward (Minnie Driver) that Adam is an elite soldier on an unofficial special project as “Beekeeper.” And Derek Danforth (Josh Hutcherson), the main villain at the scammers' headquarters, is not at all happy that Clay is determined to take down his gang as a one-man army.
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