William Earl administrator German director Moritz Mohr‘s feature debut is the colorful and bloody revenge tale “Boy Kills World,” which opens Friday in theaters.
Bill Skarsgård plays the titular character, a mute fighter hellbent on revenge, complete with a dry inner monologue voiced by H.
Jon Benjamin. As he aims to topple a dynastic crime family, led by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), that rules society and kills his family, scores of enemies are destructively dispatched, sure to leave audiences surprised that the increasingly creative and gory violence made it past the MPAA.
Mohr, who also co-wrote the story the film is based on, spoke with Variety about the film’s unique fighting style, the challenges of shooting a sprawling adventure during COVID and how producer Sam Raimi helped his vision get made. What inspired “Boy Kills World”? We wanted to make a movie that we would all like to watch.
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