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Amazon Studios has released the first trailer for its upcoming dark comedy "Gringo". Red-banded, the nearly-three-minute trailer opens with Charlize Theron's Elaine Markinson and Joel Edgerton's Richard Rusk trying to convince two reluctant businessmen, played by Alan Ruck and Kenneth Choi, to buy a new marijuana pill.

After Elaine and Richard finally sell the pill, they recruit David Oyelowo's Harold, a mild-mannered businessman, to take the formula down to Mexico. One scene shows Harold being kidnapped by a Mexican drug mafia after his colleagues, who had been selling some of their supply to the cartels, cut them off.

"I've been kidnapped. I am somewhere in Mexico with a gun to my head," Harold says. "Harold, I'm just gonna spit this out. We sold a little product to the cartels. But we cut them off, they got a little angry," Richard admits. Hearing Harold's scream, Elaine calls him a "f***ing crybaby." To escape from the mafia, Harold has to join forces with an assailant, played by Sharlto Copley.

An exhilarating mix of dark comedy, white-knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, "Gringo" joyrides into Mexico, where mild-mannered businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues back home, local drug lords and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary.

Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation in ways that raise the question: Is he out of his depth - or two steps ahead?

The film is set for a March 9, 2018 release in the U.S. by Amazon Studios and STXinternational. Directed by Nash Edgerton and written by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone, the dark comedy also stars Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton, Paris Jackson, Melonie Diaz, Michael Angarano, Harry Treadaway, Bashir Salahuddin and Yul Vazquez.

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