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‘Can I Write a Script Without Killing Everybody in It?’
Jeremy Saulnier on pulling his new movie, Rebel Ridge, back from the brink after his lead actor left and challenging himself to a very specific goal.
And in Rebel Ridge — the genre experiment that Saulnier has spent six years working on, kept alive after its star, John Boyega, walked away, and describes as “ First Blood meets Michael Clayton ” — the film’s stranglehold moment happens in its very first scene. Organizations like the ACLU and the Institute for Justice estimate that police departments and federal agencies misuse the practice to collect billions each year; agents need little evidence to seize money or assets, and there are basically no repercussions afterward. Terry is an expert-martial-artist badass, but he prefers to defuse, not exacerbate, situations; his partner in unraveling a conspiracy and cover-up in Shelby Springs is Summer McBride (AnnaSophia Robb), a government employee with her job on the line.
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