Kill Chain

Kill Chain (2020)

A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.

Date of release
2020-02-20
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (191)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director
Ken Sanzel

Casting

Interesting facts

Kill Chain is a 2019 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Ken Sanzel. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Enrico Colantoni, Anabelle Acosta, Angie Cepeda, Eddie Martinez, Alimi Ballard, and Ryan Kwanten.

Production

In May 2018, it was reported that Ken Sanzel would write and direct Kill Chain, an action-thriller for Millennium Films starring Nicolas Cage.

Sanzel said the impetus for Kill Chain came about after finishing Blunt Force Trauma in Colombia, with Sanzel's producer Gary Preisler suggesting they return to work on another film within the country utilizing their knowledge acquired during the production of Blunt Force Trauma.

Sanzel was inspired by the Raymond Chandler short story I'll Be Waiting with its hotel setting and build-up to a violent structure informing which would have three intertwining stories centering on Cage's character Araña, Enrico Colantoni's Sniper, and a third story which proved challenging for Sanzel in finding a direction he liked.

Kill Chain was shot over the course of 20 days in Bogotá.

Initially, the film was structured so that Cage's character would not appear until the back half of the film, but the producers were concerned about him not appearing at the beginning and the film was restructured for a frame story in the beginning that would have an appearance of Cage in the opening.

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