Based on a Dark Horse comic book series by Peter Lenkov, the film stars Ryan Reynolds (Green Lantern) and Jeff Bridges (who seems to be reprising his role of Rooster Cogburn from True Grit) as a pair of deceased law-enforcers tasked with tracking down evil spirits. It's basically Men in Black meets Peter Jackson's The Frighteners. It is directed Robert Schwentke, whose previous works includes Flightplan, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and RED.
Along with Reynolds and Bridges, the film stars Kevin Bacon (X-Men: First Class, The Following), and Mary-Louise Parker (RED, The Spiderwick Chronicles). Here’s the official synopsis, followed by the new trailer below...
“Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds headline the 3D supernatural action-adventure R.I.P.D. as two cops dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect and serve the living from an increasingly destructive array of souls who refuse to move peacefully to the other side.
Veteran sheriff Roy Pulsifer (Bridges) has spent his career with the legendary police force known as R.I.P.D. tracking monstrous spirits who are cleverly disguised as ordinary people. His mission? To arrest and bring to justice a special brand of criminals trying to escape final judgment by hiding among the unsuspecting on Earth.
Once the wise-cracking Roy is assigned former rising-star detective Nick Walker (Reynolds) as his junior officer, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, two of R.I.P.D.’s finest must miraculously restore the cosmic balance…or watch the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls the very wrong way.”
R.I.P.D. is released on July 19th.