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‘King Ivory’: Melissa Leo, James Badge Dale & Michael Mando Talk John Swab’s Fentanyl Crisis Crime Thriller – Venice Film Festival
'King Ivory' cast members Melissa Leo, James Badge Dale and Michael Mando talk to Deadline about making John Swab’s fentanyl-crisis crime thriller.
Indie filmmaker John Swab ’s action thriller King Ivory, a multi-faceted dive into the U.S. fentanyl crisis that weaves together storylines from various angles of the war on drugs, had its world premiere in the Horizons Extra strand at the Venice Film Festival this week. West makes it his mission to take down those responsible, including the Mexican cartel’s local shot-caller, Ramón Garza ( Michael Mando), Indian Brotherhood War Chief, Holt Lightfeather (Graham Greene), who controls state-wide trafficking while serving life inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester and the local Irish Mob family outfit, led by George “Smiley” Greene (Ben Foster), along with his mother, Ginger ( Melissa Leo), and uncle, Mickey (Ritchie Coster). In his research for King Ivory(a street name for fentanyl), he spent time with families of addicts, active junkies, government officials, cops, trafficked migrants, criminals, cartel members and prisoners.
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