Those Who Wish Me Dead

Those Who Wish Me Dead
Release poster
Directed byTaylor Sheridan
Screenplay by
Based onThose Who Wish Me Dead
by Michael Koryta
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBen Richardson
Edited byChad Galster
Music byBrian Tyler
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • May 5, 2021 (2021-05-05) (Seoul)
  • May 14, 2021 (2021-05-14) (United States)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$23.5 million[1]

Those Who Wish Me Dead is a 2021 American action thriller film directed by Taylor Sheridan[2] with a screenplay by Michael Koryta, Charles Leavitt, and Sheridan, based on Koryta's novel of the same name.[3] The film follows a boy (Finn Little) who witnesses the murder of his father and goes on the run with a smokejumper (Angelina Jolie) in the Montana wilderness to escape a pair of assassins (Nicholas Hoult and Aidan Gillen) hired to kill him. Jon Bernthal, Medina Senghore, and Jake Weber also appear.

Those Who Wish Me Dead premiered on May 5, 2021, in South Korea,[4] and was released in the United States on May 14 by Warner Bros. Pictures under the New Line Cinema banner, both in theaters and digitally for one month on HBO Max. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $23 million worldwide.

  1. ^ "Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  2. ^ "'Those Who Wish Me Dead' Summary & Ending, Explained – A Plastic Canvas | DMT". Digital Mafia Talkies. May 15, 2021. Archived from the original on May 15, 2021. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  3. ^ "Those Who Wish Me Dead". Writers Guild of America West. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
  4. ^ Lee, Jae-Lim (May 4, 2021). "Jolie journeys through real fire in 'Those Who Wish Me Dead'". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on May 5, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2021.