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Lionsgate & Roadside Attractions Acquire TIFF Midnight Madness Movie ‘Boy Kills World’ Starring Bill Skarsgård, Michelle Dockery


EXCLUSIVE: The TIFF Midnight Madness movie, Boy Kills World, has been picked up by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. The action movie starring Bill Skarsgård, Michelle Dockery, Jessica Rothe, and…

Directed by German director Moritz Mohr, and produced by Sam Raimi and Roy Lee, Skarsgård stars as Boy, a deaf-mute with a vivid imagination, driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood video game, avows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Janssen), the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deafened, and voiceless. “We could not think of a better partner to bring our audacious and entirely original film to the big screen than the company that has given us the John Wick and Hunger Games franchises,” said Wayne Fitzjohn and Simon Swart. Pic also stars Brett Gelman ( Stranger Things, Fleabag), Isaiah Mustafa ( It: Chapter Two, Shadowhunters), martial arts master Yayan Ruhian ( John Wick Chapter 3- Parabellum, Star War Episode VII – The Force Awakens), Nicholas and Cameron Crovetti ( Big Little Lies, The Boys), and Quinn Copeland ( Punky Brewster), with Andrew Koji ( Bullet Train, Snake Eyes) and Sharlto Copley, ( District 9, Elysium).

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