Check Out The New Poster For Denis Villeneuve’s SICARIO

Earlier this month, we showed you the first photos from the upcoming film SICARIO.

Today you get a first look at the poster for director Denis Villeneuve’s searing emotional-thriller that descends into the intrigue, corruption and moral mayhem of the borderland drug wars.

Lionsgate’s drama will screen this month In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2015.

When Arizona FBI agent and kidnap-response-team leader Kate Macer (Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt) uncovers a Mexican cartel’s house of death, her shocking find leads to profound consequences on both a personal and global level. Kate is recruited to join a covert black-ops mission headed by a mysterious Colombian operative known only as Alejandro (Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro, Best Supporting Actor, Traffic, 2000) along with special agent Matt Graver (Academy Award nominee Josh Brolin, Best Supporting Actor, Milk, 2008).

Even as Kate tries to convince herself she’s on a hunt for justice, she is thrust into the dark heart of a secret battleground that has swept up ruthless cartels, kill-crazy assassins, clandestine American spies and thousands of innocents.

The jagged line of the U.S. and Mexican border is now awash in some of the most pressing questions of our times – drugs, terror, illegal immigration, corruption and an escalating swath of dark crime that has left people on both sides frightened and vigilant. SICARIO explores the journey of an intelligence operation that pushes the rules to engage with those who don’t play by any.

With the screenplay by Taylor Sheridan, Villeneuve closely collaborated with editor Joe Walker, who recently garnered an Oscar nomination for TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, to carve out the film’s high-anxiety rhythms. He also reunited with PRISONERS composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, the Icelandic native known for his entrancing melodies and insistent percussion, who created a haunting aural backdrop for Sicario that matches the film’s fierce action and lingering emotions.

Earlier this year, Jóhann Jóhannsson received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for his work on THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING. Read our interview with the Oscar nominated composer HERE.

Villeneuve is currently in pre-production on two additional projects Story of Your Life, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker and the Untitled Blade Runner Project, starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling.

SICARIO is a visceral inside portrait of the drug wars. It exposes a world of hard questions and even harder answers while testing human and emotional strength in a world where one is forced to grapple with emotions, desire and morality where there is no clarity and the only inviolable law is the law of staying alive to fight another day.

Also featuring Victor Garber and Jon Bernthal, SICARIO opens in theaters on September 18, 2015 (limited) & September 25, 2015 (wide).

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R for strong violence, grisly images, and language

Photos: Luis Ricardo Montemayor Cisneros