Peppermint (2018 film)
Plot
A woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally kills him with a shot to his head. Five years earlier, the woman, Riley North, was working as a banker struggling to make ends meet. Her husband, Chris, owns a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. Chris's friend tries to talk him into robbing Diego Garcia, a powerful drug lord. Chris turns him down, but not before Garcia has already discovered his involvement and ordered his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out for pizza and to a carnival for her birthday. As the family walks to the car, Diego's men gun down Carly and Chris in a drive-by shooting. Riley is wounded but survives. Despite her injuries, Riley can positively identify the shooters. The detectives handling the case are hesitant to pursue charges against the three, as they are members of Garcia's drug cartel, which wields considerable influence. Detective Beltran explains to his partner, Carmichael, that the last detective who tried to bring Garcia to justice was found murdered.
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Production
In May 2017, director Pierre Morel was attached to the project; he previously directed the first film in the Taken series) starring Liam Neeson. The script, influenced by the Marvel Comics character Frank Castle / Punisher, came from writer Chad St. John, who previously co-wrote the script for London Has Fallen. In August 2017, Jennifer Garner was in talks to join the film as Riley North, a woman who, driven by the deaths of her daughter and husband, killed by a cartel, wages a one-woman war on crime using various weapons. The title of the film, "Peppermint", refers both to the flavor of ice-cream the character's daughter was eating upon her death, and the eventual alias taken by her as she embarks on her crusade. Filming took place at various locations in California over fifty days.
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