{"id":73921,"date":"2025-11-25T00:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/gus-van-sants-dead-mans-wire-trailer-stars-bill-skarsgard\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:03:27","slug":"gus-van-sants-dead-mans-wire-trailer-stars-bill-skarsgard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/gus-van-sants-dead-mans-wire-trailer-stars-bill-skarsgard\/","title":{"rendered":"Gus Van Sant’s ‘Dead Man’s Wire Trailer Stars Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cSentimental Value\u201d star Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a> isn\u2019t the only member of the Swedish family vying for awards this year. His son Alexander stars in the queer BDSM romance \u201cPillion,\u201d up for 10 British Independent Film Awards<\/a>, and his other son Bill stars in Gus Van Sant<\/a>\u2018s first feature in seven years, \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Venice and Toronto International Film<\/a> Festival premiere is one of the flagship releases from rookie distributor Row K Entertainment, and it\u2019s based on the true story of conspiracist Tony Kiritsis. In 1977, he entered the Indianapolis offices of the Meridian Mortgage Company with a sawed-off shotgun to hold its president (Dacre Montgomery) hostage, alleging the corporate bigwig fucked him over on mortgage payments.<\/p>\n

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Watch the trailer for \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire\u201d below. The film receives an awards-qualifying run on December 12, followed by a limited release January 9, and wide release the following week on January 16.<\/p>\n

Penned by first-time feature screenwriter Austin Kolodney, \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire\u201d also stars Cary Elwes, Myha\u2019la, Colman Domingo, and even Al Pacino in a brief role appropriate for the fact that this hostage-style thriller recalls Pacino\u2019s own \u201cDog Day Afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ripped-from-the-headlines story in \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire\u201d also brings to mind recent news breaks that have turned assassins fighting for the working class into folk heroes \u2014 like Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024.<\/p>\n

That mythologizing of vigilantes into folk heroes and internet crusaders is \u201ckind of a new thing for today\u2019s generation,\u201d Gus Van Sant told IndieWire ahead of Venice<\/a>. \u201c[There are] extreme reactions to certain things, that I\u2019m not necessarily able to understand, in generations. That happened after we had scheduled the film; it was in [December], the Mangione shooting, and we had started just before that in September, and we were moving to Louisville, Kentucky, where we were shooting. We realized we were making something that had a similarity to it. I was having this discussion with almost everyone my age of the acceptance of that particular Mangione incident and who the health company CEO was, and the person I was talking to had friends that knew [the CEO].\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re used to seeing Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd in extreme costume and makeup, whether starring in \u201cNosferatu\u201d or as the killer clown in the \u201cIt\u201d films, but \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire\u201d gives the actor a chance to shine in a more stripped-down dramatic role as a mortal human being.<\/p>\n

From IndieWire\u2019s review<\/a>: \u201cOne does not hire Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd unless one is looking for a lanky, off-putting weirdo. But Skarsg\u00e5rd does a good job of making his character\u2019s frustration and rising panic grounded and relatable. This helps immensely when we get to the finale, which complicates the us-vs-them narrative. Ultimately, \u2018Dead Man\u2019s Wire\u2019 concedes that Kiritsis\u2019 violent actions had more negative effects than positive ones. But the man still had a point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n

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