The Guilty is a 2021 American crime thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie is a remake of the Danish original movie under the same name.
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- The Guilty is a 2021 American crime thriller film.
- It was directed and produced by Antoine Fuqua.
- The screenplay was written by Nic Pizzolatto.
- It’s a remake of the 2018 Danish film of the same name.
- In the film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Christina Vidal.
- Also in the movie “appear” the voices of Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Eli Goree, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Paul Dano, Peter Sarsgaard, and Bill Burr.
- The Guilty had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2021.
- The film was released in a limited release on September 24, 2021.
- It was then digitally on Netflix on October 1.
- It received mostly positive reviews from critics.
- Critics mostly praised Gyllenhaal’s performance.
- Despite that it still felt that the remake was inferior to the original film.
- In December 2018, it was announced Jake Gyllenhaal had acquired rights to the 2018 Danish thriller film The Guilty.
- It would also announced that he would star in and produce a remake under his Nine Stories Productions banner, alongside Bold Films.
- In September 2020, it was announced Antoine Fuqua would direct and produce the film, from a screenplay by Nic Pizzolatto.
- Later that month, Netflix acquired worldwide rights to the film for $30 million
- In November 2020, Ethan Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard, Riley Keough, Paul Dano, Byron Bowers, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, David Castaneda, Christina Vidal, Adrian Martinez, Bill Burr, Beau Knapp and Edi Patterson joined the cast of the film.
- Principal photography began in Los Angeles in November 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic,
- It lasted for 11 days.
- Three days before production was set to begin, a person in contact with director Antoine Fuqua tested positive for COVID-19.
- Fuqua tested negative subsequently, so the production was still on schedule.
- He directed the entire film from a van with screens that had access to the cameras, maintaining contact with the cast and the crew.
- Jake Gyllenhaal’s sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, is married to Peter Sarsgaard, who played Henry Fisher.
- Second remake of a Danish film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the first being Brothers (2009).
- Antoine Fuqua and Jake Gyllenhaal’s second collaboration since Southpaw (2015).
- Ethan Hawke’s fourth collaboration with Antoine Fuqua after Training Day (2001), Brooklyn’s Finest (2009), and The Magnificent Seven (2016).
- This is the 2nd movie that Jake Gyllenhaal & Beau Knapp has stared together. The first being “Southpaw” (2015).
- The Guilty is actually a remake of a 2018 Danish film called Den Skyldige (which translates to The Guilty), which reportedly was based on true events. The original movie’s director, Gustav Möller, said it was inspired by a real 911 call he listened to on YouTube. In the actual 20-minute call that inspired the original movie, a kidnapped woman spoke to a 911 operator in code while sitting next to her abductor.
- Netflix’s The Guilty is a remake of the Danish film, but it adds in new elements (like the California wildfires that are blazing throughout the movie and the backstory that explains why Jake’s character was put on 911 call duty).
- The film was streamed in 69 million households over its first month of release, and was the top-watched film on the platform in 91 countries
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