Shane Black's Play Dirty Debuts on Prime Video Oct 1

Shane Black’s Play Dirty is set to arrive on Prime Video on October 1, led by Mark Wahlberg as Parker, the infamous professional thief, with LaKeith Stanfield portraying his partner Grofield. The first trailer for the Amazon MGM Studios thriller positions Parker as a meticulous, no-nonsense career criminal who, after a setup leaves him seeking revenge, pursues what would be the biggest heist of his life alongside a trusted con artist and a core crew. The film thrusts Parker into a high-stakes contest with the New York mob, while also bringing in a broader international heist dynamic.

Play Dirty marks another major entry in the long-running Parker canon, a character created by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark. The Parker novels have yielded seven major film adaptations over the decades, tracing the character from Lee Marvin’s 1967 Point Blank through subsequent versions starring Mel Gibson and Jason Statham. This latest adaptation comes under the direction and writing supervision of Shane Black, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi. The project has been characterized as Black’s first directing effort since The Predator in...