PREVIEW: Those Who Wish Me Dead (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted), Nicholas Hoult (The Favourite), Aidan Gillen (Calvary), Jon Bernthal (Wind River), Tyler Perry (Gone Girl), Medina Senghore (The Three Way), Finn Little (Storm Boy), Jake Weber (White House Down), James Jordan (Message from the King), Tory Kittles (The Sapphires)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Taylor Sheridan (Wind River), director, writer, producer; Michael Koryta (film debut) and Charles Leavitt (Blood Diamond), writers; Garrett Basch (Life Itself), Aaron L. Gilbert (Tully), Kevin Turen (Assassination Nation) and Steve Zaillian (Red Sparrow), producers; Brian Tyler (Crazy Rich Asians), composer; Ben Richardson (Beasts of the Southern Wild), cinematographer; Chad Galster (Deadly Secrets), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

After accidentally witnessing a murder, teenager Connor (Little) is pursued by two deadly assassins (Hoult and Gillen) across the Montana wilderness, along with survival expert Hannah Faber (Jolie) assigned to protect him…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Taylor Sheridan, the acclaimed writer behind Sicario and Hell or High Water, directs and co-writes this adaptation of Michael Koryta’s dark neo-Western, which also sees Angelina Jolie toughen up as a fierce survival expert.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

MONDAY 17TH MAY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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