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The Beekeeper
One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
2024 · Directed by David Ayer · 106 min · Action · Crime · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 19 frames
Tagline
Expose the corruption. Protect the hive.
Plot
In Springfield, Massachusetts, retired school teacher Eloise Parker lives alone but shares a warm friendship with Adam Clay, a quiet beekeeper who rents space in her barn. One day, Eloise falls for a phishing scam that steals her life savings, including over $2 million from a charity she runs; devastated and bankrupt, she kills herself. Adam discovers her body, and FBI agent Verona Parker, Eloise's daughter, arrests him on suspicion of murdering her. Adam is cleared and released, and Verona apologizes. Hellbent on revenge, he contacts a mysterious group called the "Beekeepers" for information to locate those responsible. They trace the scammers to a call center near Springfield, run by Mickey Garnett.
Adam storms the call center and burns it down, killing guards in the process. Mickey's boss, Derek Danforth, instructs Mickey to kill Adam, but he takes down the assailants and severs Mickey's fingers with a bandsaw. Mickey calls Derek to warn him, but Adam kills Mickey, and warns Derek that he is next. Derek alerts Wallace Westwyld, a former CIA director serving as head of security for Danforth Enterprises, Derek's tech firm. Recognizing Adam as a former Beekeeper, Wallace alerts the CIA, who dispatches Anisette, a current Beekeeper, to kill him. Anisette ambushes Adam, but he kills her and cuts off one of her fingers; the Beekeepers promptly declare neutrality, leaving Wallace with no defenses. Adam uses Anisette's severed finger to enter her compound and search for Derek's primary call center.
Verona and her partner, Matt Wiley, anticipate that Adam's next target is the Nine Star United Center in Boston, which oversees Derek's global scam call centers. Wallace rallies a black ops team led by Pettis and briefs them on the Beekeepers, revealed to be an elite clandestine human intelligence organization tasked with protecting the United States and operating above and beyond governmental jurisdiction, with an organizational culture inspired by worker bees in a beehive. Pettis's team deploys to secure Nine Star and kill Adam, but tensions with an FBI SWAT team and manager Rico Anzalone's refusal to evacuate create confusion that allows Adam to incapacitate the SWAT team, kill Pettis and his men, and interrogate Anzalone.
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Crew
- Written by: Kurt Wimmer
- Cinematography: Gabriel Beristain
- Edited by: Geoffrey O'Brien
- Music: Jared Michael Fry, David Sardy
- Production design: Ben Munro
- Produced by: Jason Statham, Bill Block, Kurt Wimmer, Chris Long
Cast
- Jason Statham as Adam Clay
- Emmy Raver-Lampman as Agent Verona Parker
- Josh Hutcherson as Derek Danforth
- Jeremy Irons as Wallace Westwyld
- Bobby Naderi as Agent Matt Wiley
- David Witts as Mickey Garnett
- Michael Epp as Pettis
- Taylor James as Lazarus
- Phylicia Rashād as Eloise Parker
- Jemma Redgrave as President Danforth
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Miramax, Cedar Park Entertainment, Punch Palace Productions
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $162,619,535
- Themes: massachusetts, secret government organization, government conspiracy, hand to hand combat, vengeance, fbi agent, beekeepers, scam call center, retired assassin, revenge mission
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