Poster arrives for The Next Three Days

In a reversal of his usual tough guy image, Russell Crowe is set to appear as a mild-mannered family man in Paul Haggis' forthcoming thriller, The Next Three Days.

As we saw in the trailer we brought to you a couple of weeks ago, the movie concerns Crowe's fruitless efforts to prove the innocence of his wife (Elizabeth Banks) who is accused of murder, and his subsequent attempt to bust her out of jail.

The Next Three Days' first poster, seen before you here, works as a nifty riff on those mosaic movie promos we saw about ten years ago - The Truman Show and Thir13en Ghosts are but two examples - where a face is made up of several other images.

A more pretentious writer would also add that this technique has its roots in the 16 century work of Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who came up with the quirky idea of producing portraits where the sitter's features were composed of everyday objects such as fruit, tree roots and books.

The Next Three Days poster, meanwhile, works like a collage of Crowe's meticulous jailbreak plan, with photographs, maps and marker pen lines creating the outline of a human face, which is presumably Cameron himself.

If you squint, it actually looks like David Cameron, glancing over his shoulder as he rides away on his pushbike. Or is that just us?

The Next Three Days is due for release on 19th November in the US, with a UK date still to be confirmed.