Wahlberg, Foster, Ribisi and Beckinsale Star In Kormakur's CONTRABAND

Far and away the busiest director to ever come out of Iceland - and one of the busiest in all of Europe - Baltasar Kormakur indulges his more commercial instincts with upcoming Hollywood action thriller Contraband.

Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, a white-knuckle action-thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked hard to leave behind and the family he'll do anything to protect.  Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling--full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs--where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away.
 
Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best--running contraband--to settle Andy's debt.  Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills.
 
Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.

Kormakur has a knack for building tension and with the cast present here - Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Kate Beckinsale, Giovanni Ribisi, Diego Luna, Lukas Haas, and JK Simmons - he's got plenty to work with. It certainly doesn't hurt that he knows the material inside out as well, the film being an English language re-do of Icelandic thriller Reykjavik: Rotterdam which Kormakur starred in and produced.

Check the first trailer below.