David Farnor | On 04, Sep 2021

“What is the address of your emergency?” “I don’t know.” That’s the sound of Jake Gyllenhaal heading to Netflix for new thriller The Guilty.

Based on Gustav Möller’s drama Den Skyldige, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the film is written by True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto. It follows a 911 dispatch call operator, who tries to save a caller in danger, but discovers that nothing is at it seems. The movie takes place over the course of a single morning.

Gyllenhaal, who also produces alongside Fuqua, is joined by Peter Sarsgaard (The Looming Tower, The Batman), Riley Keough (The Devil All The Time, Earthquake Bird), Byron Bowers (Concrete Cowboys, Honey Boy), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Dolemite is My Name, The United States vs Billie Hoilday), David Castañeda (The Umbrella Academy, Sicario: Day of the Soldado), Christina Vidal (7 Days to Vegas), Paul Dano (The Batman, Wildlife-Writer/Director, Love & Mercy), Ethan Hawke (First Reformed, Boyhood), Adrian Martinez (Stumptown, I Feel Pretty), Bill Burr (F Is for Family, The King of Staten Island), Beau Knapp (The Good Lord Bird, The Nice Guys, Southpaw) and Edi Patterson (Knives Out, Righteous Gemstone).

You can see – and hear – them in action on 1st October, when the film premieres on Netflix. Until then, here’s the inventive teaser trailer:

 

The Guilty is available on Netflix UK, as part of an £9.99 monthly subscription.

 

Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard join Antoine Fuqua’s The Guilty

14th November 2020

Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard are some of the big names that have joined Antoine Fuqua’s Netflix film The Guilty.

Based on Gustav Möller’s drama Den Skyldige, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the film is written by True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto. It follows a 911 dispatch call operator, who tries to save a caller in danger, but discovers that nothing is at it seems. The movie takes place over the course of a single morning.

The film, which was picked up by Netflix in September, stars Jake Gyllenhaal, who is producing alongside Fuqua. Now, he’s got some seriously impressive company, with the following all signing up to star: Peter Sarsgaard (The Looming Tower, The Batman), Riley Keough (The Devil All The Time, Earthquake Bird), Byron Bowers (Concrete Cowboys, Honey Boy), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Dolemite is My Name, The United States vs Billie Hoilday), David Castañeda (The Umbrella Academy, Sicario: Day of the Soldado), Christina Vidal (7 Days to Vegas), Paul Dano (The Batman, Wildlife-Writer/Director, Love & Mercy), Ethan Hawke (First Reformed, Boyhood), Adrian Martinez (Stumptown, I Feel Pretty), Bill Burr (F Is for Family, The King of Staten Island), Beau Knapp (The Good Lord Bird, The Nice Guys, Southpaw) and Edi Patterson (Knives Out, Righteous Gemstone).

Production is expected to start before the year is out.

 

Netflix nabs Jake Gyllenhaal thriller The Guilty

24th September 2020

Netflix has nabbed the global rights to Jake Gyllenhaal thriller The Guilty.

Based on Gustav Möller’s drama Den Skyldige, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the film is written by True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto. It follows a 911 dispatch call operator, who tries to save a caller in danger, but discovers that nothing is at it seems. The movie takes place over the course of a single morning.

Gyllenhaal is producing as well as starring, alongside his Nine Stories partner Riva Marker. The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua, who is also producing alongside Kat Samick through his Fuqua Films. Bold Films is financing, with Scott Greenberg, Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, David Litvak and Svetlana Metkina producing. Amet Entertainment’s David Haring is also on board as a producer, while Annie Marter, Möller and Lina Flint will be exec-producing with Christian Mercuri and Jon Oakes.

Production is expected to start before the year is out and Netflix has wasted no time in getting ahead of it. The streamer has paid a reported $30 million for the worldwide rights to the pic. It follows Netflix’s similarly aggressive acquisitions of Halle Berry’s Bruised for $20 million, after it screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Pieces of a Woman for $10 million, after it won an acting prize for Vanessa Kirby at the Venice International Film Festival, and Malcolm & Marie for $30 million, after Sam Levinson, Zendaya and John David Washington shot the film secretly in lockdown.

Fuqua will then follow the film with Emancipation, starring Will Smith, for Apple TV+, while Gylenhaal will soon star in Snow Blind, another Apple TV+ project that marks the English-language debut of Gustav Möller.

Gyllenhaal told Deadline, who broke the news: “I couldn’t be more excited to work with Antoine again. Our time together on Southpaw was one of the great artistic experiences of my career, and I cannot wait to be back on set with him again. The Guilty is a special story, and one that we all feel very close to.”

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