"There's so much footage of the real event. Like, a crazy amount of footage," Bill Skarsgård tells us of his new film, Dead Man's Wire, which is based on the unbelievable true story of Tony Kiritsis. 49 years ago, Kiritsis walked into a mortgage company building, took the owner's son, Richard "Dick" Hall, as his hostage, and held him captive with a shotgun wired to his neck for 63 hours. Kiritsis asked for nothing more than an apology – and $5 million – after believing the Halls had swindled him.
"Even in the script, as you're reading it, Austin [Kolodney], the writer, had put links in to the actual 911 phone calls, and the footage of them walking on the streets with the shotgun wired to his neck," Skarsgård adds.
