It's never an easy thing to be the lone voice shouting against something bigger than yourself, especially when what you're shouting is the kind of thing people get killed over. In the upcoming thriller Kill the Messenger, Jeremy Renner plays Gary Webb, a reporter whose real life work to expose the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua, as well as importing narcotics into California, saw his life become a living hell when the government set out to destroy his life. Based on the book Kill the Messenger by Nick Schou, as well as Webb's own book Dark Alliance, this 70s-set films looks like it's trying recapture something of the political thrillers of the era, a new Parallax View that centres on an oft-forgotten aspect of US political history.
Ahead of the film's release, producers have made available a short featurette that looks closer at the true story that provided the basis for Kill the Messenger. We get more information about Gary as a man and journalist and his experience of what he went through upon trying blow the whistle on shady government dealings. Amongst those speaking are lead Renner, director Michael Cuesta and even Webb's wife, Sue Webb. Take a look at the featurette below and get a taste of the true tale.
Ahead of the film's release, producers have made available a short featurette that looks closer at the true story that provided the basis for Kill the Messenger. We get more information about Gary as a man and journalist and his experience of what he went through upon trying blow the whistle on shady government dealings. Amongst those speaking are lead Renner, director Michael Cuesta and even Webb's wife, Sue Webb. Take a look at the featurette below and get a taste of the true tale.
Should your curiosity for the project be sufficiently stirred, we can also present you with four clips from the film, which reveal different aspects of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's journey to uncover the truth, fight against the powers that would silence him, and come to question the very society in which he lives that could not only enact the heinous deeds he is trying to investigate, but also their actions against him as an American citizen searching for the truth.
The film also features a damn good cast too, including two-time Academy Award-nominee Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson, Barry Pepper, Oliver Platt, Michael Sheen, Paz Vega, Michael Kenneth Williams, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Andy Garcia...... seriously, that's an amazing cast.
Kill the Messenger opens this month in the US, starting on limited release on the 10th and expanding later in the month.
The film also features a damn good cast too, including two-time Academy Award-nominee Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson, Barry Pepper, Oliver Platt, Michael Sheen, Paz Vega, Michael Kenneth Williams, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Andy Garcia...... seriously, that's an amazing cast.
Kill the Messenger opens this month in the US, starting on limited release on the 10th and expanding later in the month.
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