Al Pacino Joins Hostage Thriller "Dead Man's Wire"
Academy Award Winner Al Pacino is set to join the upcoming hostage thriller "Dead Man's Wire", to be directed by Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant.
The screenplay was written by Austin Kolodney.
He joins previously announced Bill Skarsgard, Dacre Montgomery, Myha'la, Cary Elwes and Colman Domingo.
The official synopsis for the movie reads: "The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. 'Tony' Kiritsis, 44, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a 'dead man's wire' from the trigger to Tony's own neck. This is the true story of the stand-off that took the world by storm as Tony demanded $5 million, no charges or prosecution, and a personal apology from the Halls for cheating him out of what he was 'owed.'
Pacino most recently starred in "Knox Goes Away". This is his first film with Van Sant.
The Scent of a Woman Best Actor Oscar winner can next be seen in David Midell's "The Ritual", Eif Rivera's "Killing Castro", Julian Schnabel's "Hand of Dante", Alec Griffin Roth's "Billy Knight", and Nic Pizzolatto's "Easy Waltz".
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