Those Who Wish Me Dead
Those Who Wish Me Dead is a 2021 American action thriller film directed by Taylor Sheridan with a screenplay by Michael Koryta, Charles Leavitt, and Sheridan, based on Koryta's novel of the same name. 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.
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Owen: Mmm. Like, annoyingly insensitive.
Connor: Has a girl ever called you obtuse?
Owen: Only your mother, son.
- The wristwatch that Angelina Jolie wears is an inexpensive Casio MRW-200H-1BVEF.
- In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Angelina Jolie spoke about going back to acting after years of directing behind the camera: "I love directing, but I had a change in my family situation that's not made it possible for me to direct for a few years. I needed to just do shorter jobs and be home more, so I kind of went back to doing a few acting jobs. That's really the truth of it."
- American Humane Association monitored some of the animal action. No animals were harmed in those scenes. AHD 09848
- Nicolas Cage was considered for a role.
- The production team rigged an enormous woodland set, which was safely set ablaze. Real firefighters stayed on set to carefully contain the inferno, Angelina Jolie met with several of them for insight into the perilous world of smoke jumping.
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