“Just because I’m telling you this story doesn’t mean I’m alive at the end,” narrates Blake Lively as her character O introduces us to the hyper sexual and violent world in which she resides in the first trailer for Oliver Stone’s drug cartel thriller “Savages.” Yes, it’s one of those stories, in which certain death for most if not all parties involved seems inevitable.
Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson play best friends and business partners Chon and Ben, two Southern Californian pot growers whose business is starting to really become lucrative. No surprise then that the Mexican drug lords want a piece of the action. When they refuse to work for Salma Hayek’s organization, Benicio Del Toro is dispatched to kidnap O, the girlfriend they share between them, setting off a chain of violent events that may or may not culminate in everybody killing each other.
“Savages”, based on the best-selling novel by Don Winslow, will be released on July 6th, and will coincide with the publication of “The Kings of Cool”, a prequel novel that traces the beginnings of Ben, Chon and O’s unusual friendship.
Watch the brilliant and intense first trailer below.
Aaron Johnson looks a bit like a 70′s porn star in our first glimpse of the young British actor in character as Ben, a pot dealer in Oliver Stone’s highly anticipated “Savages”, based on the best-selling novel by Don Winslow. Johnson sports a pornstache, big hair held back by a bandanna and gold jewelry, including an earring, while filming in Redondo Beach over the weekend. Kind of a far cry from the nerdy, quiet genius as described in Winslow’s novel, if you ask me. Ben is the complete opposite of his business partner and best friend Chon, and together they must come up with a complicated scheme to outsmart a brutal Mexican drug cartel when their mutual girlfriend O is kidnapped for ransom. 
Jennifer Lawrence appears to have her pick of the hottest guys in Hollywood. Oliver Stone – who presented Lawrence with the Rising Star award at the Palm Springs Film Festival earlier this year – has cast the new Oscar nominee in “Savages”, and is testing some of the biggest rising stars around to play the men who love her, according to 
