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EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Academy Award Winner\u00a0Al Pacino<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is set to join the upcoming hostage thriller\u00a0Dead Man\u2019s Wire,<\/em>\u00a0to be directed by Academy Award nominee\u00a0Gus Van Sant<\/a>.<\/p>\n The screenplay was written by Austin Kolodney. He joins previously announced Bill Skarsgard, Dacre Montgomery, Myha\u2019la, Cary Elwes and Colman Domingo \u2014\u00a0all of whom Deadline first told you about.<\/a><\/p>\n Here\u2019s the blurb for\u00a0Dead Man\u2019s Wire:\u00a0<\/em>The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. \u201cTony\u201d Kiritsis, 44, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a \u201cdead man\u2019s wire\u201d from the trigger to Tony\u2019s own neck. This is the true story of the stand-off that took the world by storm as Tony demanded $5 million, no charges or prosecution, and a personal apology from the Halls for cheating him out of what he was \u201cowed.\u201d<\/p>\n Pacino most recently starred in\u00a0Knox Goes Away<\/em>. This is his first film with Van Sant. The\u00a0Scent of a Woman\u00a0<\/em>Best Actor Oscar winner can next be seen in David Midell\u2019s\u00a0The Ritual,\u00a0<\/em>Eif Rivera\u2019s\u00a0Killing Castro,\u00a0<\/em>Julian Schnabel\u2019s\u00a0Hand of Dante,\u00a0<\/em>Alec Griffin Roth\u2019s\u00a0Billy Knight,\u00a0<\/em>and Nic Pizzolatto\u2019s\u00a0Easy Waltz<\/em><\/p>\n In addition to the latest casting, Sipur Studios, Yo Productions and Wrong Turn Productions have joined as additional financiers on the movie.<\/p>\n Pacino is repped by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman Meigs & Fox<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n View this article at Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award Winner\u00a0Al Pacino\u00a0is set to join the upcoming hostage thriller\u00a0Dead Man\u2019s Wire,\u00a0to be directed by Academy Award nominee\u00a0Gus Van Sant. The screenplay was written by Austin Kolodney. He joins previously announced Bill Skarsgard, Dacre Montgomery, Myha\u2019la, Cary Elwes and Colman Domingo \u2014\u00a0all of whom Deadline first told you about. Here\u2019s the blurb for\u00a0Dead
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