Showing posts with label Taylor Sheridan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taylor Sheridan. Show all posts

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Those Who Wish Me Dead  Press Day 2


"'I probably have a very long list [of 'nos']. I've been alone for a long time now,' Jolie joked."   --  Alone without a date for a long time = she has never dated, and very long list of 'nos' = she has no interest in dating.


"I don’t know how many women they’ve said I’ve been dating the last two or three years, and none of it’s true."
















Taylor Sheridan, initially brought on to rewrite the mountain thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” gradually got more invested in the movie. When another filmmaker dropped out, he called the studio with an offer.

“I said if I can get Angie to do this with me, I’ll direct it for you,” Sheridan says. “They said, ‘Great. You’ll never get Angie.’”

“We all have times in our lives where we are broken. And we grieve and we’re not sure we have anything left in us,” Jolie said in an interview by Zoom from Los Angeles. “I identified more with a part of her that didn’t feel she could do a lot, and hadn’t done this in a long time. To be in this situation and have a director that is both sensitive and aware of the human experience, to go there and to feel it, but also to push you to find your strength and move forward.”

“It was really what I needed at that time,” says Jolie.

“Those Who Wish Me Dead,” which will on May 14 open in theaters and on HBO Max, is an anomaly for other reasons, too. It’s a star-led genre film not based on well-known intellectual property made by a major studio. (The film is based on Michael Koryta’s 2014 book.) Like Sheridan’s previous films —“To Hell or High Water,” “Sicario” (both of which he wrote) and “Wind River” (which Sheridan wrote and directed), it’s a tale of blood and justice across a vast and violent American landscape.

“To sound like a millennial, it’s very on-brand for me,” says Sheridan, chuckling. “But what’s unique is we made this at a studio. This is a studio film and they trusted us to go do this. We made it like a ’70s movie. They promoted it like a ’70s movie. The biggest 21st century element is the fact that you’ll be able to stream it or go to the theater.”

Snow was still falling in the mountains. Aside from the natural environs, Sheridan erected a faux forest and set it aflame. Jolie, an action star in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” “Salt” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” performed many of her stunts. Sheridan, accustomed to making films close to the land, had little luxury to offer beyond space heaters in tents and lavish, overbudget craft services. He cheerfully recalls the experience as miserable.

“You know, the character sort of drags Angie through emotional hell, and then I drug her through physical hell,” Sheridan says from a remote lakeside quarantine in Ontario. “That’s how we made the movie.”

“And I loved every minute of it,” Jolie says, smiling.

Jolie will next be seen in Marvel’s “Eternals,” by “Nomadland” director ChloĆ© Zhao — another filmmaker drawn to fresh tales on old American frontiers. It’s been an unexpected break from directing for Jolie, who last helmed 2017′s Cambodian genocide drama “First They Killed My Father.”

“I prefer directing but acting gives me more time at home,” says Jolie. “It’s less of a commitment.”

Yet, if anything, the chances of such performances are getting slimmer. The pandemic, says the 45-year-old Jolie, has been a time of reevaluation — and movies are a diminishing priority.

“I was kind of spending more time at home regardless because of different family reasons. But if I was before spending half my time on my international work, I think I’ll now be spending 80% of my time on this other work. I’ll be doing less film work. Not quitting anything but a lot less,” says Jolie. “I’ve mentally shifting into a different time in my life.”

Jolie has been a special envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 2012. She applauds President Joe Biden’s recent expansion of U.S. refugee admissions but sees a global crisis only worsening, especially as countries struggling from the pandemic pull back on foreign aid.

“In the last decade, we saw numbers double. We’re looking at 80 million displaced people. A lot of those people are displaced because of the climate and the way that’s changing, and that’s going to keep changing,” says Jolie. “If we don’t take it seriously, we’re going to see a complete breakdown of some many things for so many people. Or this can be the turning point where we all pull together.”

“I like characters whose physical journey parallels the emotional journey they’re going through,” says Sheridan. “She was game. It was cold. I’d be like, ‘Get in the river’ and she’d be like, ‘OK, I’m getting in the river.’”



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Monday, January 28, 2019


Those Who Wish Me Dead was loved by readers much more than The Kept.  The genre thriller is right in Sheridan's wheelhouse.  His record as a writer-director is much more impressive that Neil Burger's who is attached to Shoot Like A Girl.  Producer Steve Zaillian did rewrites on Salt.  A very strong, proven team.


Jolie would star while Sheridan, who wrote the script, will direct, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Bron Studios, which was involved in recent movies such as The Mule, Assassination Nation and A Simple Favor, are producing. Also producing are Steven Zaillian (Moneyball, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) and Garrett Basch via their Film Rites banner.
The project adapts a book by Michael Koryta but sources say the feature will veer away from certain points. The book told of a teen in a witness protection program hiding out from a pair of killers in a wilderness skills program while a fire engulfs Montana.
Sheridan’s script is described as being female-driven (the book’s female lead ran a fire lookout tower before being swept into the teen’s troubled life) and a by the seat of your pants chase movie.
Sheridan was an actor who segued to writing, making a name for himself by writing acclaimed gritty thrillers such as Sicario and Hell or High Water. He made his directorial debut with Wind River, a thriller that starred Jeremy Renner.
He also created the Kevin Costner drama Yellowstone. The plan for Sheridan is to shoot Wish Me Dead after wrapping up the second season of the Paramount Network show.
Sheridan was gearing up to shoot a black ops thriller titled F.A.S.T. that was to have starred Chris Pratt and to have gone into production this summer but switched gears last minute. It is unclear what happens to F.A.S.T. now.
Jolie, who has not appeared on the big-screen since 2015’s By the Sea, next stars in Maleficent 2, which Disney releases in 2020.


Angelina Jolie has come on board to star in the chase thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead” with Taylor Sheridan directing from his own script.
Bron Studios and Film Rites are producing and Creative Wealth Media is financing. Sheridan is adapting the script from Michael Koryta’s 2014 novel of the same name, which follows a 14-year-old boy who witnesses a brutal murder, is issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens while the killers are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him.
Plot details and Jolie’s character are under wraps. The story is set against a wildfire in the Montana wilderness.
Producers are Garrett Basch and Steve Zaillian of Film Rites and Bron Studios’ Aaron L. Gilbert. Creative Wealth Media’s Jason Cloth is the executive producer.

Producers plan to shoot in May, after Sheridan completes the second season of his Kevin Costner series “Yellowstone.” Sheridan received an Academy Award nomination in the original screenplay category for “Hell or High Water.” He has writing credits on “Sicario” and the sequel “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” and wrote and directed “Wind River,” for which he received a nomination from the Directors Guild of America Award for First-Time Feature Film Director.
Jolie was last seen in “By the Sea,” which she also directed. She’s starring in “Maleficent II,” which is set for May 29, 2020. Jolie is repped by UTA; Sheridan is CAA and Elevate Entertainment. The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.


EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie is poised to star in Those Who Wish Me Dead, a drama that Taylor Sheridan wrote and will direct late this spring.
BRON Studios and Film Rites are set to produce and Creative Wealth Media will finance the rugged thriller helmed by Sheridan, who made his directorial debut on the celebrated Wind River, and whose scripts include Hell or High Water, Sicario and the sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Sheridan has adapted the script from the Michael Koryta bestselling novel.
Oscar-winner Jolie is finalizing a deal to star. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Sheridan’s script is described as a hard-boiled chase thriller set against a wildfire in the Montana wilderness.
The plan is to shoot in May, after Sheridan completes the second season of his Kevin Costner-starrer series Yellowstone, which Sheridan exec produces, writes and directs. There is no studio yet, but this is a hot property that will land quickly.
Garrett Basch and Steve Zaillian and BRON Studios’ Aaron L. Gilbert (The Mule, Tully, Fences, Leave No Trace) will produce. Creative Wealth Media’s Jason Cloth (Tully, Fences, A Simple Favor) is executive producer.
Jolie, who most recently wrapped Maleficent 2, is repped by UTA; Sheridan is CAA and Elevate Entertainment.



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