Jack Quaid is best known for playing everyman Hughie in The Boys, but now he’s set to take the action spotlight in the upcoming action movie Novacaine.
Here’s the first trailer:
Here’s the official logline for the movie: When the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder) is kidnapped, everyman Nate (Jack Quaid) turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.
The movie is directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen who are best known for their films Villains, Body, and Significant Other. Besides Quaid and Midthunder, the movie also has appearances from Betty Gabriel, Jacob Batalon, and Matt Walsh (the good one).
Though we’ve gotten a lot of action/revenge movies over the past few years like John Wick and Monkey Man, this one has a new twist to the story in that the lead Novocaine is just an everyman, but he can’t really feel pain.
Quaid seems to be the perfect choice for this character seeing that he’s mostly considered out of place in these action franchises, but that doesn’t mean he can’t kick butt when he needs to. It’s also funny that they’re pairing him with MCU Spider-Man’s Jacob Batalon, since Quaid has also done a small voice role as Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; he was Spider-Gwen’s original Peter (the one that transformed into The Lizard).
Watch out for Novocaine when it comes to cinemas on March 14.
