Trailer: Angelina Jolie in ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’
Academy Award winner Jolie (Girl, Interrupted) stars as Hannah, a smoke jumper still reeling from the loss of three lives she failed to save from a fire when she comes across a traumatized 12-year-old boy with nowhere else to turn.
The film also stars Nicholas Hoult (The Great, the X-Men films), Finn Little (Reckoning), Aiden Gillen (Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders), Medina Senghore (Happy!), Tyler Perry (Madea, Gone Girl), Jake Weber (Midway, Homeland), and Jon Bernthal (Ford v Ferrari, Wind River).
Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water, Wind River) directed from a screenplay by Michael Koryta and Charles Leavitt and Sheridan, based on the book by Koryta. Steven Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Aaron L. Gilbert, Kevin Turen and Sheridan produced, with Steven Thibault, Ashley Levinson, Andria Spring, Jason Cloth, Richard McConnell, Kathryn Dean, Michael Friedman, Daria Cercek and Celia Khong executive producing.
Sheridan’s behind-the-scenes creative team included his Wind River director of photography Ben Richardson, production designer Neil Spisak and costume designer Kari Perkins, and his Yellowstone editor Chad Galster and composer Brian Tyler.
Those Who Wish Me Dead will be available in theaters and on HBO Max on May 14, in the US only, for 31 days from its theatrical release, at no extra cost to subscribers.
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