Summary

• Samuel L. Jackson stars in the chilling crime-noir thriller Damaged alongside Vincent Cassel, hitting theaters April 12, 2024.
• The film follows a detective haunted by a past case, teaming up to catch a sadistic killer in Scotland with terrifying similarities.
• Jackson juggles multiple projects, including voicing Garfield's dad, reuniting with fellow actors, and diving into historical drama.

The thrilling trailer for Damaged, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Cassel, has now been unleashed courtesy of Lionsgate. Releasing in theaters and on demand and digital from April 12, Damaged has been called “a heart-pounding crime-noir thriller” and stems from the mind of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul director Terry McDonough. The movie follows Jackson as a Chicago police detective who heads off to Scotland after a serial killer’s crimes match some that he investigated years earlier...one of which was the murder of his girlfriend, no less.

You can watch a clip from the film above, and check out the new trailer and the official synopsis for Damaged below.

“How do you catch a brilliant monster? When a sadistic murderer surfaces in Scotland, terrified local authorities call on a Chicago police detective who investigated a killing spree with the same horrific pattern five years earlier. Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Cassel star in this shocking thriller about two detectives with tortured pasts trying to stop a merciless serial killer before he claims his next victim.”

Directed by Terry McDonough (Breaking Bad, Killing Eve) from a screenplay written by Paul Aniello, Koji Steven Sakai, and Gianni Capaldi, Damaged features an all-star cast led by Academy Award nominee and Hollywood icon Samuel L. Jackson alongside Eastern Promises and Jason Bourne star Vincent Cassel. The rest of the cast includes Gianni Capaldi (King of Killers), Laura Haddock (Transformers: The Last Knight), John Hannah (The Mummy), Katie Dickie, and Brian McCardie (Time).

Damaged is due to be released in theaters and on demand and digital on April 12, 2024.

Samuel L. Jackson Has Plenty More Projects in the Pipeline

Arguably one of the busiest actors in the industry, Samuel L. Jackson has several projects in the pipeline alongside Damaged. The actor, who is best known for his work with director Quentin Tarantino in the likes of Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained, as well as his role in the MCU as Nick Fury, will soon lend his voice to Garfield’s dad in the upcoming Garfield animated movie.

Starring alongside fellow Marvel actor Chris Pratt, who will voice the titular tabby cat, Garfield is about to have a wild outdoor adventure in the new movie after an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father, Jackson’s scruffy street cat Vic. The Garfield Movie is set to be theatrically released on May 24, 2024.

Jackson is also due to join forces with John David Washington and Ray Fisher in the upcoming drama, The Piano Lesson, which drops the trio in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression and follows the lives of a family and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor.

Vincent Cassel, meanwhile, is all set to reunite with Eastern Promises director David Cronenberg for The Shrouds. The project has been called the “most personal” ever for Cronenberg, and follows Cassel as Karsh, a grieving widower, who builds an innovative device to help people connect with the dead.