PROVOKR Pick: THE KITCHEN
McCarthy, Moss, and Haddish As Mob Wives
We just love adapting comic books into movies. In a rare break from adapting superhero comics for the big screen, a different kind of comic book is getting its silver screen adaptation. That comic book series is the DC Vertigo comic book mini-series The Kitchen by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. The Kitchen follows three wives of Irish mobsters who take over their husbands’ organized crime dealing when they are arrested. Sounds fun, right? It’s also set in the 1970s, and I don’t know about you, but I love the 70s.
Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss, and Tiffany Haddish (in her first major drama production) star in this crime-comedy film as three housewives in Hell’s Kitchen (there is a reason that neighborhood was named Hell’s Kitchen) circa 1978. When the FBI arrests their husbands for organized crime (gasp) these women have little choice but to take over for their now incarcerated mates. Hilariously proving that they are just as adept, if not more, at a life of crime, even taking out their competition.
The film was written and directed by Andrea Berloff, marking her directorial debut. In addition to the McCarthy-Moss-Haddish dream team, the film also stars Domhnall Gleeson, Bill Camp, Margo Martindale, and Common. The Kitchen is the first live-action, theatrically released R-rated adaptation of a DC comic since Watchmen (2009).
The Kitchen will be released on August 9, 2019 by Warner Brothers.
