Walking Dead actor Michael Rooker stars in Netflix new film The Out-Laws
By Renee Hansen
Actor Michael Rooker is well known for many memorable roles throughout his career, including Merle Dixon on The Walking Dead. He was an awful character who was hellbent on making everyone’s lives miserable, but in the end, he did try to redeem himself. Rooker currently stars in a new Netflix movie, The Out-laws.
This action comedy is directed by Tyler Spindle, known for The Wrong Missy, and was written by Evan Turner and Ben Zazove. The Out-laws is produced by Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, and Adam DeVine, who also stars in the film.
The story follows Owen Browning, a bank manager whose bank is robbed the week of his wedding by the infamous Ghost Bandits. While preparing for the wedding, he begins to suspect his future in-laws, newly arrived, of being the robbers.
The Out-Laws release date
Netflix released the film on July 7, 2023.
The Out-Laws cast
DeVine plays soon-to-be-married bank manager Owen. He is joined by Nina Dobrev, who plays his fiancee, Parker, with Ellen Barkin and Pierce Brosnan playing the future in-laws. Richard King and Julie Hagerty play Owen’s parents, and Rooker pays a cop named Roger Oldham. Also starring Poorna Jagannathan, Lil Rel Howery, Blake Anderson, Lauren Lapkus, and Laci Mosely.
The Out-Laws trailer
Check out the action-packed trailer below that features Rooker in his role.
What else does Michael Rooker star in?
Recently Rooker returned to the MCU in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as Yondu. He recently starred in two episodes of season 5 of The Rookie and appeared in Fast X.
He has several upcoming projects; he will star in Kevin Costner’s post-Civil War movie Horizon: An American Saga, a drama based on Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find, a crime thriller Road Rage, and a TV movie, The President is Missing.
Fans have loved him in his previous roles in The Suicide Squad, Love and Monsters, Slither, Corrective Measures, and White Elephant.
He is also known for starring in one of the most disturbing films ever made, Henry: The Portrait of a Serial Killer.
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