“Those Who Wish Me Dead” is a neo-Western film directed by Taylor Sheridan and marking Angelina Jolie’s return to starring roles.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the film.
- Those Who Wish Me Dead is a 2021 American neo-Western action thriller
- The film was directed by Taylor Sheridan
- With a screenplay by Michael Koryta, Charles Leavitt, and Sheridan
- It is based on Koryta’s novel of the same name
- The film follows a teenager (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 silence him
- Jon Bernthal, Medina Senghore, and Jake Weber also star
- Those Who Wish Me Dead was released in several international countries on May 5, 2021
- This was followed by in the United States on May 14, by Warner Bros. Pictures under the New Line Cinema banner
- In the United States is released both in theaters and digitally for one month on HBO Max
- It received largely positive reviews from critics
- It was announced in January 2019 that Angelina Jolie would star in the film, with Taylor Sheridan writing and directing
- By April, Nicholas Hoult, Tyler Perry, Jon Bernthal, and Aidan Gillen were among new cast who joined the film
- Filming began in May 2019 in New Mexico
- With production concluding in July 2019
- At the same time it was announced James Jordan had been cast
- The film’s score was composed by Brian Tyler
- In May 2019 Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film
- As part of its plans for all of its 2021 films, Warner Bros. will also stream the film simultaneously on the HBO Max service for a period of one month
- After the one month period the film will be removed until the normal home media release schedule period
- It had a theatrical debut internationally in South Korea on May 5, 2021
- In the United States and Canada, Those Who Wish Me Dead was released alongside Spiral, and is projected to gross $4 to 5 million in its opening weekend
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes it holds a 63% rating
- Based on 103 reviews
- With an average rating of 5.7/10
- The site’s critical consensus reads, “A squarely traditional ’90s-style action thriller, Those Who Wish Me Dead is elevated by Taylor Sheridan’s propulsive direction”
- According to the review aggregator Metacritic, it holds a weighted average of 60 out of 100
- Based on 30 reviews
- Those Who Wish Me Dead received “mixed or average reviews” on the service
