The Hummingbird Project

2019
5.7
The Hummingbird Project
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Title: The Hummingbird Project

Year: 2019

Info

  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 111 Minutes (1 hour 51 min)
  • Genre: Drama Thriller
  • Distributor: Vertigo Releasing
  • Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

  • UK: June 14 2019
  • United States: March 15 2019

Plot

'The Hummingbird Project' takes the thriller genre and puts it the competitive and cut-throat world of finance. Two ambitious cousins, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg, 'The Social Network') and Anton Zaleski (Alexander Skarsgård, 'Big Little Lies') work in trading and know the importance of lightning-fast access to information. Seeing the demand for this, Vincent debates filling it by building a fibre optic cable from New Jersey to Kansas, an operation that, should it succeed, will make him rich. Vincent convinces Anton to leave his job under the ruthless power broker Eva Torres (Salma Hayek, 'Frida') to work with him on the project. Along with drilling expert Mark (Michael Mando, 'Better Call Saul'), the men band together in their determination to take the finance world by storm, and to get rich doing it. But Eva won't go down without a fight, and is behind the group every step of the way, threatening to take Anton's essential code smarts away from them by deeming his work her intellectual property. The race for faster broadband is on.

'The Hummingbird Project' is written and directed by Kim Nguyen ('Eye on Juliet'). Joining the cast are Johan Heldenbergh ('The Brand New Testament'), Ayisha Issa ('Dark Matter'), Sarah Goldberg ('Barry') and Frank Schorpion ('Arrival').

Cast

Director:

Kim NguyenKim Nguyen

Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg

Vincent Zaleski

Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek

Eva Torres

Michael Mando

Michael Mando

Mark Vega

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Trivia

They're fake

Alexander Skarsgård's eyeglasses show no refraction during the film, indicating they are only cosmetic.

Hard-working actor

Jesse Eisenberg memorized the entire script before recording started. This was confirmed by him and the director at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Not so invented

The director confirmed that the story was fictional but that it reflect advances in trading technology.

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