'Dead Man’s Wire' has more than a whiff of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

Dead Man’s Wire,” named for the wire tying a shotgun trigger to a loop around Dick’s neck as he remains bound to a chair in ...

‘Dead Man’s Wire’ faithfully recreates a TV hostage standoff but avoids the messy why

Gus Van Sant continues the mass-media-meets-violence conversation of 'To Die For,' but doesn't have much to say about this ...
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Director Gus Van Sant talks art, death and ‘Dead Man’s Wire’

We talk with Gus Van Sant about the filmmaker's first film in eight years, a crime thriller inspired by a 1977 hostage ...
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Dead Man’s Wire Star Bill Skarsgård Says He Isn’t Playing a Monster This Time

You might not have pegged the guy who breathed life into Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Barbarian’s Keith or Nosferatu’s Count ...
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Gus Van Sant on the eerie parallels between ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ and the Luigi Mangione case

Dacre Montgomery and Bill Skarsgard in Gus Van Sant's 'Dead Man's Wire' The real life incident portrayed in the film was something Van Sant had never heard of, "even though they interrupted ...
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‘Dead Man’s Wire’ filmmakers talk Covid, casting choices, and provoking debate

Dead Man's Wire depicts a real-life hostage-situation that played out across the media in 1977. Tim Grierson talks to ...