Netflix announced its entire slate for the rest of 2021 recently including Jake Gyllenhaal’s ’The Guilty’. The film that is scheduled for release on 1st October is a dramatic thriller based on the Gustav Moller-directed Danish drama “Den Skyldige,” which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Antoine Fuqua (‘Southpaw’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’) has directed the film with a script from Nic Pizzolatto (‘True Detective’). As per Netflix, ‘The Guilty’ takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center. Call operator Joe Bayler (Gyllenhaal) tries to save a caller in grave danger—but he soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, and facing the truth is the only way out.
Netflix recently dropped the first look of the film featuring Jake Gyllenhaal in an all black attire wtih a blue ID card hanging around his neck. An intensely serious and tensed look donned by Jake backed with a dimly lit backdrop give a sinister feel adding to the thrilling genre of the film.
Set inside a 911 dispatch call center over the course of one day, Antoine Fuqua's thriller THE GUILTY follows Jake Gyllenhaal's Joe, a phone operator who desperately tries to save a caller in grave danger.
But Joe soon discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. pic.twitter.com/pOCPmU072h
— Netflix Tudum (@NetflixTudum) August 24, 2021
Other than Gyllenhaal the film also stars Peter Sarsgaard (The Looming Tower, The Batman), Riley Keough (The Devil All The Time, Earthquake Bird), Byron Bowers (Concrete Cowboys, Honey Boy), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Dolemite is My Name, The United States vs Billie Hoilday), David Castañeda (The Umbrella Academy, Sicario: Day of the Soldado), Christina Vidal (7 Days to Vegas), Paul Dano (The Batman, Wildlife-Writer/Director, Love & Mercy), Ethan Hawke (First Reformed, Boyhood), Adrian Martinez (Stumptown, I Feel Pretty), Bill Burr (F Is for Family, The King of Staten Island), Beau Knapp (The Good Lord Bird, The Nice Guys, Southpaw), Edi Patterson (Knives Out, Righteous Gemstone).
Jake Gylenhaal and Riva Marker for Nine Stories; Antoine Fuqua and Kat Samick for Fuqua Films; Scott Greenberg; Bold Film’s Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, David Litvak and Svetlana Metkina; and Amet Entertainment’s David Haring have produced ‘The Guilty’ for Netflix.
The film’s executive producers are Annie Marter, Gustav Moller, Lina Flint, Christian Mercuri, Jon Oakes and Eric Greenfeld, Nic Pizzolatto.
Catch Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘The Guilty’ only on Netflix from 1st October, 2021 onwards.
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