Nearly two years have gone by since we heard Angelina Jolie would be starring in Those Who Wish Me Dead, a new thriller from Wind River (watch it HERE) writer/director Taylor Sheridan. Now a batch of first look images have arrived online to offer a preview of the film ahead of its May 14 theatrical and HBO Max release date.
Based on a novel by Michael Koryta (you can pick up a copy of it HERE), Those Who Wish Me Dead is about
Hannah, a smoke jumper who is trained to parachute into a blaze. While stationed at an isolated fire tower as she reflects on a past failed mission, she encounters Connor (Finn Little), a 12-year-old boy who is being stalked by two assassins (Nicholas Hoult and Aidan Gillen). Together, Hannah and Connor must outrun the hunters as well as the wildfire raging all around them.
Koryta wrote the screenplay with Sheridan and Charles Leavitt.
The description of Koryta's novel mentions that the assassins "are slaughtering anyone in their way in a methodical quest" to reach the boy, so it sounds like Hoult and Gillen might be racking up a decent body count in this.
The actors mentioned above are joined in the cast by Jon Bernthal, Tyler Perry, Medina Shenghore, and Jake Weber.