Lift – Picture. HartBeat Productions
Over the past few years, Kevin Hart and Netflix have built a lucrative and fruitful relationship. This will continue with Hart’s next venture on the platform, the comedy-heist movie Lift. Set to release in August 2023, we’re keeping track of everything you need to know about Lift on Netflix.
Netflix’s Lift will be helmed by F. Gary Gray, who is known for directing such films as Straight Outta Compton, The Italian Job, Men In Black: International, The Negotiator, Set it Off as well as many music videos with various artists. The script for Lift was written by Daniel Kunka.
F. Gary Gray
The movie has also many big-name producers enlisted. Lift is produced by Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon for Genre Pictures, Matt Reeves and Adam Kassan for 6th & Idaho, and Hart and Brian Smiley for HartBeat Productions.
Netflix has overall deals with both HartBeat Productions and 6th & Idaho.
Here’s everything else we know about Netflix’s Lift:
What’s the Netflix release date for Lift?
Thanks to the release of the Netflix film slate we can confirm that Lift will be coming to Netflix this Summer on August 25th, 2023.
What’s the plot of Lift?
Beyond the logline provided by Netflix, the plot has mostly been kept under wraps. Here’s the official logline provided by Netflix:
Kevin Hart will play a master thief who is wooed by his ex-girlfriend and the FBI to pull off an impossible heist with his international crew on a 777 flying from London to Zurich.
Who is cast in Lift?
As of October 2021, only Kevin Hart was the only known person to be among the cast of Netflix’s Lift. Kevin Hart notably signed a deal with Netflix back in January 2021 (which was compared in terms of scale to the Adam Sandler deals) to produce four exclusive films for Netflix via his production company, HartBeat.
We now have the full cast list for Lift, however, most of the roles still remain unnamed.
Thirteen years after starring in the first Avatar, Sam Worthington found even further success with its recent sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, which has made over $2 billion at the box office worldwide. Worthington has previously starred in two Netflix films, Fractured, and The Titan.
Sam Worthington
Netflix fans will recognize the hulking figure of Vincent D’Onofrio who previously starred as Kingpin in the Netflix Daredevil series, which was later reprised in the Disney+ series Hawkeye. D’Oonforio has also starred in the Netflix series Ratched, and the Netflix films The Unforgivable and El Camino Christmas.
Vincent D’Onofrio
Without the iconic mustache, everyone can be forgiven for not recognizing Paul Anderson as Arthur Shelby from Peaky Blinders. Outside of the beloved British drama, Lift will be Anderson’s first Netflix film.
Paul Anderson
Also in the cast of Lift in IMDbs STARmeter order;
- Gugu Mbatha Raw (Belle)
- Burn Gorman (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
- Jean Reno (Léon: The Professional)
- Billy Magnussen (Into the Woods)
- Úrsula Corberó (Money Heist)
- Jacob Baton (Spider-Man: Homecoming)
- Ross Anderson (Crawl)
- Viveik Kalra (Blinded by the Light)
- Russ Bain (Mission Impossible – Fallout) as Vaxby
- Roy McCrerey (Carnival Row) as Co-Pilot
- Gordon Alexander (Gangs of London)
- Caroline Loncq (The Protege) as Sandra
- Yunjee Kim (Mine)
- Jess Liaudin (Submergence) as Arthur
- Oli Green (The Mosquito Coast) as Eric Mollsen
- Martina Avogardi (I XXXX My Sex Doll)
- Alfredo Tavares (Blackmail) as San Marco
- David Pound (Verisimilitude) as Harry
- Morgan C. Jones (Boys from County Hell) as Claude
- Erol Ismail (No Time to Die) as Noah
- Felix Garcia Guyer (Sanctuary) as Lt. Charles
What’s the production status of Lift?
Official Production Status: Post-Production (Last Updated: 26/01/2023)
Filming took place between February 18th, 2022 and May 25th, 2022.
BelfastLive confirmed in March 2022 that filming was taking place in Belfast. According to the report, Hart also performed at a local comedy club in early March 2022 while filming.
As for where they’re filming in Belfast, the local site says:
“Production was taking place outside the landmark Great Victoria Street pub The Crown Liquor Saloon, with Harte spotted walking from the nearby Europa Hotel.”
Additional production listings confirmed that the majority of the filming is taking place at Belfast’s Harbour Studios which is also where Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil was filmed.
Lift film set – Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Kevin Hart on set of Netflix’s Lift – Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
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Filming reportedly took place across various locations, including;
- London, England, UK
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Venezia, Italy (Multiple Sites)
- Trieste, Italy
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