Overview
- Directed by Gus Van Sant from Austin Kolodney’s script, the film dramatizes Tony Kiritsis’s 1977 Indianapolis hostage standoff centered on a shotgun rigged to a “dead man’s wire.”
- Critics single out Bill Skarsgård’s performance and cite echoes of Dog Day Afternoon, noting the film’s interest in populist anger and media spectacle.
- Reviews also point to factual looseness and a narrow perspective that sidesteps deeper context, even as threads with a TV reporter and a radio DJ broaden the canvas.
- The ensemble features Dacre Montgomery as hostage Dick Hall, Colman Domingo as DJ Fred Temple, Al Pacino as banker M.L. Hall, and Myha’la as a local TV journalist.
- The Row K Entertainment release is 105 minutes and rated R for language, with the opening reported as set for January 16, 2026.