Kill Chain (film)
Kill Chain is a 2019 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Ken Sanzel. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Enrico Colantoni, Anabelle Acosta, Angie Cepeda, Eddie Martinez, Alimi Ballard, and Ryan Kwanten.
Kill Chain was released in the United States through video on demand on October 18, 2019, by Amazon Studios.
Cast
- Nicolas Cage as Araña
- Anabelle Acosta as The Woman In Red
- Enrico Colantoni as The Old Sniper
- Ryan Kwanten as Ericson
- Angie Cepeda as The Very Bad Woman
- Eddie Martinez as Sanchez
- Jhon Bedoya as Garcia
- Alimi Ballard as The Curious Assassin
- Pedro Calvo as The Mean Assassin
- Yusuf Tangarife as Oso
- Luna Baxter as Gigi
- Jon Mack as Gigi's Friend
- Juan Andres Angulo as Delivery Boy
- Hector Alexander Gomez as Franco
- Eileen Jimenez as Franco's Daughter
- Sara Elizabeth Avila as Franco's Daughter
Production
In May 2018, it was reported that Ken Sanzel would write and direct Kill Chain, an action-thriller for Millennium Films starring Nicolas Cage.Sanzel said the impetus for Kill Chain came about after finishing Blunt Force Trauma in Colombia, with Sanzel's producer Gary Preisler suggesting they return to work on another film within the country utilizing their knowledge acquired during the production of Blunt Force Trauma.
Sanzel was inspired by the Raymond Chandler short story I'll Be Waiting with its hotel setting and build-up to a violent structure informing which would have three intertwining stories centering on Cage's character Araña, Enrico Colantoni's Sniper, and a third story which proved challenging for Sanzel in finding a direction he liked. Taking inspiration from the Richard Linklater film Slacker, Sanzel restructured the story so that the killer in one story becoming the victim in the next which cleared the way for Sanzel to write the plotline for Ryan Kwanten's Ericson.
Kill Chain was shot over the course of 20 days in Bogotá.
Initially, the film was structured so that Cage's character would not appear until the back half of the film, but the producers were concerned about him not appearing at the beginning and the film was restructured for a frame story in the beginning that would have an appearance of Cage in the opening.