Manny, Sid and Diego's Nightcrawler

Manny, Sid and Diego's Nightcrawler is a 2018 Australian-British crime black comedy film directed by Ralph Fiennes and written by Dan Gilroy. This is the thirteenth installment in the Sonic Cinematic Universe and the film is a co-production between Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and New Zealand. The film stars Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Armie Hammer, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Jack Whitehall, Jack Reynor, Adam DeVine, Keke Palmer, Jessie J, Nick Offerman, Stephanie Beatriz, Max Greenfield, William H. Macy, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer and Ralph Fiennes (who also directs and writes the sequel), it tells the story of The Herd and a driver who stumbles upon the underground world of Los Angeles, Hollywood freelance crime journalism the film is after the events of Sonic's Kingdom Hearts: The Beginning. Manny, Sid and Diego's Adventures of Nightcrawler is the first installment in Manny, Sid and Diego's "Heist Trilogy", succeeded by Logan Lucky and Good Time. It is an anthology film constructed as a triptych: it contains three distinct stories connected by a couple of three heists in one go. The sequel is dedicated to late American actor Bill Paxton, who left the production before his untimely death in February 25, 2017 and was forced to be replaced by Fargo actor William H. Macy for the late Bill's part. Principal photography took place during February 2018 in California.
==Plot==
It's late at night in the city of Los Angeles. Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo), Diego (voiced by Denis Leary), Julian (voiced by Adam DeVine), Brooke (voiced by Jessie J), Peaches (voiced by Keke Palmer), Crash (voiced by Seann William Scott), Eddie (voiced by Josh Peck), Buck (voiced by Jack Whitehall), Shira (voiced by Jennifer Lopez), Ellie (voiced by Queen Latifah) and Louis Bloom (Armie Hammer) has broken into a train yard to try and break off a chain link fence. An thug approaches him and demands to hand him his wallet. The Herd and Lou are forced to keep their cool and gives it to the thug, and then Lou attacks the thug and kills him. The Herd and Lou later takes the broken up fence to a scrapyard and sells the fence to the yard's owner while trying to negotiate a higher price. He then asks the owner if he is hiring, since he can start immediately. He uses his motto, "If you want to win the lottery, you gotta have the money to buy a ticket." The owner rebuffs him and says he won't hire a thief. A few cop cars pass The Herd and Lou on the road. They pulls over to see what they're investigating. A car is on fire, and people are inside. A van of nightcrawlers - guys who record violent incidents at night for profit - pull up, led by Joe Loder (William H. Macy). The Herd and Lou sees Loder filming while two men pull a woman from the vehicle. The Herd and Lou approaches Loder and asks about the job. Loder says it's a "flaming blast of a job." The Herd and Lou asks him if they're hiring and Loder says no. The Herd and Lou burrows a bike on the beach the next day and goes to pawn it off. The shop owner will only go as far as $700, Sid then asks for $800 in store credit so he can get a camcorder and a police scanner. Using these, They listen to some reports of incidents in the area. He pulls up to multiple crime scenes and is told to leave by the police. They manage to get good graphic footage of a man who was shot to death after a carjacking. The police turn The Herd, Lou and another nightcrawler away, the latter who angrily curses Lou out for ruining his shot. The Herd and Lou follows the man as he calls his employer and overhears how much the man is set to make off the footage. Lou goes to the Channel 6 news station and meets news director Nina Romina (Adèle Exarchopoulos). Lou shows her and another station producer, Frank Kruse (Ralph Fiennes) the footage, with good shots of the man dead and paramedics trying to revive him. The Herd and Lou only makes $250 off the footage, despite trying to go way higher. They once again tries asking for a job or an internship position to no avail. The Herd and Lou are forced to interview a young Irish man named Rick (Jack Reynor) for an internship position, making it seem like he's heading some big news station. Rick is practically homeless and struggling to find work, and he has little experience in this sort of field. The Herd and Lou simply asks him if he has a phone with GPS, and Rick says yes. The Herd and Lou hires him on the spot and tells him he'll get paid $30 a night. The Herd and Lou makes Rick read off directions to him as they go looking for incidents. Lou drives like a taxi driver and makes Rick confused. He accidentally gives him wrong directions, and they arrive to the scene of a home fire too late, as paramedics have already wheeled the victim away. Lou is furious with Rick as The Herd tries to calm Lou down. People are gathered around a shooting in a suburban home. Manny and Lou sneaks in through the back and into the kitchen where he rearranges pictures on the fridge to focus on the bullet holes and a shot of the neighbors talking to police. Nina loves the footage but Frank says it looks like The Herd and Lou broke in. She still uses it. Eventually, The Herd, Lou and Rick are able to get a lot of new footage of horrifying incidents (with headlines like "toddler stabbed" and "drunk mom hits biker"), which Lou continues to sell to Nina. Lou gives her an impassioned speech about how he's come up with their own business plan and how they hope to make a name for themselves, which seems to almost move Nina. Lou stands by Nina when two anchors from her station are set to report on one of the incidents that Lou got on camera. He mentions a Mexican restaurant and invites Nina to go with him. Nina declines, as she doesn't want to compromise their professional relationship, but Lou implies that he'll stop giving her good footage if she says no. Loder finds The Herd and Lou and offers them a spot on his team to deliver them some good footage. The Herd and Lou turns him down, even as Loder persists. However, Lou very firmly rejects him, to Loder's anger, as The Herd once again tries to calm Lou down. Nina joins Lou at the Mexican restaurant. He makes it clear he wants more than a professional relationship but she says this is just a courtesy date. He reminds her that he station is the lowest rated station in the area, and she needs him just as much as he wants her. The Herd, Lou and Rick fail to arrive in time for another incident as Loder and his team beat him to the punch, leaving The Herd and Lou with weak footage of a stabbing in Corona. Nina is pissed at him. Loder's coverage hits Channel 2 in all it's glory. Lou throws his breakfast in fury. The next night, He goes to Loder's house and graffitison his van. This later leads to Loder going into the vehicle revealing "I love Nachos!". Lou and Rick arrive in time for Lou to film Loder being laughed at. That morning, The Herd watches in shock on the news report about Loder, That night again, A big break comes when The Herd, Lou and Rick happen upon a shooting/break-in at a large mansion. Diego, Sid and Lou sees two men fleeing the scene. He enters the house and films the dead bodies in each room. One victim is on the ground gasping for breath as Lou walks around him. They deliver the graphic footage to Nina, at which point Lou makes a demand for $15,000 for the footage, and not a cent lower, and Lou also wants the anchors to give him credit as Video Production News, and for him to be recognized as a credible news source. Lou makes it abundantly clear to Nina that he and The Herd's calling the shots now. The anchors at the station report on the footage while Nina tells them what to say. Two detectives, Frontieri and Lieberman (Octavia Spencer and James Paxton), arrive at Lou's door to question him and The Herd about the footage and if they saw the two men. They don't have a clue to give a clear description of the men but they tell them that they were driving an SUV. Lou brings The Herd and Rick to catch the killers and phone the cops. Rick demands a raise if he's going to keep tagging along on these sorts of missions. He meekly asks for $75 a night when The Herd and Lou states he could've gone higher. Together, they find the killers and follow them to a restaurant. Lou phones the cops and says one of them has a gun. Two cops arrive and enter the place. Two more show up, and the killers begin to shoot at them. The cops shoot the larger killer dead while the other one gets away. The Herd, Lou and Rick follow them in an intense chase. The cop car is hit by another car. Another cop car catches up to the killer and they crash. The Herd and Lou stops the car and goes to get his shot. They tell Rick that the killer is dead. Rick goes to film the killer, only to find him alive and with a gun. He shoots Rick three times before crawling out. The killer aims his gun at the cops and is shot dead. The Herd and Lou films his corpse and then films a dying Rick. Rick says to The Herd and Lou he knew the killer was alive, but The Herd and Lou replies "It's actually not that attractive". after what they say, Rick dies. The Herd and Lou brings all of this to Nina, who is enchanted by all the gruesome imagery. Detective Frontieri comes to the station and demands to have the footage as it is evidence, but Nina refuses to surrender the tapes. Frontieri later interrogated The Herd and Lou, knowing they withheld information from them since he knew what the killers looked like. Furthermore, they are unmoved by Rick's death, but he sticks by his word without flinching, and he is left free to walk. Frank approaches Nina and says the break-in at the mansion was really a drug robbery since there were multiple bags of cocaine found in there. He says this is the real story but Nina is focusing on the car chase and accident. Frank tells her she sounds like both The Herd and Lou, to which she replies that Lou has inspired them to reach higher. Now, The Herd and Lou has established Video Production News with news vans and three interns. They then ready with their tasks, and adds that they won't make them do anything they won't do themselves With that, they guides them into the night to snap more footage of what the people really want to see. the after credits scene shows 
==Trivia==
*actor/director Ralph Fiennes cited multiple films as influence on this project: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Sightseers (2012), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Death of Stalin (2017), Inherent Vice (2014), Better Watch Out (2016), The Nice Guys (2016), Death to Smoochy (2002), Keeping Mum (2005), JCVD (2008) and Coen brothers's style of direction (Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men and Burn After Reading).
*actor/director Ralph Fiennes casted American actor Armie Hammer for the role of Louis Bloom based on his supporting performances in both David Fincher's The Social Network (2010) and Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals (2016).
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