EXCLUSIVE: Invoice Skarsgård (Nosferatu) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Issues) are set to star in Useless Man’s Wire, the subsequent movie from Oscar nominee Gus Van Sant, Deadline can reveal.
Written by Austin Kolodney, the movie relies on the true story of the blue collar Tony Kiritsis (Skarsgård), who, feeling cheated by his mortgage firm, rigs a shotgun to his dealer’s neck… in what turned an nearly unimaginable three-day hostage scenario that performed out reside on the airwaves of Indianapolis in 1977.
Cassian Elwes and Tom Culliver will produce for Elevated Movies, alongside Joel David Moore of Balcony 9 Productions, and Chester Algernal Gordon.
Subsequent to be seen taking part in Rely Orlok in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, which releases on Christmas Day, Skarsgård’s upcoming slate additionally contains It: Welcome to Derry, which he exec produces, and the David Yarovesky thriller Locked.
Finest recognized for starring because the risky Billy Hargrove on Netflix’s Stranger Issues, which is heading into its last season, Australian actor Montgomery additionally has Legendary’s Faces of Loss of life remake arising, in addition to Went Up the Hill, a horror thriller with Vicky Krieps, which Greenwich Leisure simply acquired.
Recognized for movies like Good Will Searching and Elephant, Van Sant returns to the director’s chair for the primary time since 2018’s Don’t Fear, He Received’t Get Far on Foot starring Joaquin Phoenix. Presently, he’s additionally hooked up to helm a movie on the Hulk Hogan vs Gawker courtroom case starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Skarsgård is repped by WME, Magnolia Leisure, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum; Montgomery by CAA and Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern; Van Sant by WME; and Kolodney by Mosaic, Verve, and Fox Rothschild.
The InSneider’s Jeff Sneider was first to report on Van Sant and Skarsgård’s involvement with the venture.
