Breaking Baz: Colman Domingo Joins Gus Van Sant’s Hostage Thriller ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ As He Reveals Late Night Talks With DiCaprio About Hollywood’s Future
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Colman Domingo is joining the cast of Gus Van Sant’s hostage thriller Dead Man’s Wire after completing his scenes for Edgar Wright’s The Running Man.
The title of Wright’s film is an apt for an actor who is doing the reverse of Phillip C. McGraw’s dictum that ‘it’s a marathon, not a sprint,’ by jetting from London on Monday to a devastated Los Angeles, then on to Kentucky next weekend to join Nosferatu’s Bill Skarsgard in Dead Man’s Wire in Louisville.
Austin Kolodney’s original screenplay for Dead Man’s Wire is based on the story of Tony Kirtsis, who one frigid day in February 1977 took Indianapolis mortgage broker Dick Hall hostage in his office.
He attached a steel wire, that was hooked to the barrel of a sawed-off, double barrel shotgun, around his captive’s neck. Deadline revealed news of the production and the casting of Skarsgard, along with Stranger Things star Dacre Montgomery, last month. “This guy was just in dire straits, holding people hostage and speaking to a radio announcer,” says Domingo, who will play the broadcaster in question.
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