PREVIEW: The Guilty (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Ethan Hawke (Training Day), Riley Keough (Zola), Christina Vidal (I Think I Love My Wife), Eli Goree (One Night in Miami), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Dolemite Is My Name), Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), Peter Sarsgaard (An Education), Byron Bowers (Concrete Cowboy), David Castañeda (Sicario 2: Soldado), Adrian Martinez (Focus), Bill Burr (The King of Staten Island), Beau Knapp (Southpaw), Edi Patterson (Knives Out)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), director, producer; Nic Pizzolatto (The Magnificent Seven), writer; Scott Greenberg (film debut), Jake Gyllenhaal (Stronger), David Haring (Bill & Ted Face the Music), David Litvak (Vox Lux), Michel Litvak (Drive), Riva Marker (Beasts of No Nation), Svetlana Metkina (Vox Lux), Kat Samick (Southpaw) and Gary Michael Walters (Colette), producers; Marcelo Zarvos (Our Kind of Traitor), composer; Maz Makhani (The Night), cinematographer; Jason Ballantine (It), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Joe Baylor (Gyllenhaal) is a police officer who has been demoted to answering calls at a 911 dispatch call centre. One day, he receives a call from someone who claims to have been kidnapped, and becomes heavily involved in the ongoing incident – but as the pieces start coming together, Joe begins to unravel a much darker truth…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Director Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the acclaimed Danish thriller sees star and producer Jake Gyllenhaal under intense pressure as a serious crime unfolds in real-time.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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