Lionsgate has released the first trailer for ARKANSAS, a crime thriller which stars Liam Hemsworth and Clark Duke as a couple of low-level drug couriers who find themselves in the cross-hairs of Frog, a drug kingpin played by Vince Vaughn. Based upon the novel by John Brandon, ARKANSAS also serves as the directorial debut of Clark Duke, you know, the guy from KICK-ASS, HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, and the final season of The Office; Clark also co-wrote the script along with Andrew Boonkrong. In addition to Liam Hemsworth, Vince Vaughn, and Clark Duke, ARKANSAS also stars John Malkovich, Vivica A. Fox, Michael K. Williams, Eden Brolin, and Chandler Duke.
The official synopsis of ARKANSAS:
In Clark Duke’s directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they’ve never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog’s proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin then settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johanna find themselves directly in Frog’s crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire. Based on John Brandon’s best-selling book of the same name, ARKANSAS weaves together three decades of Deep South drug trafficking to explore the cycle of violence that turns young men into criminals, and old men into legends.
ARKANSAS will be released in select theaters, Apple, Amazon, and On Demand on May 1, 2020.