Death Wish (2018) Cast & Crew
Director Eli Roth, and cast Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Elisabeth Shue
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CAST & CREW
ELI ROTH (Director) burst onto the film scene at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival, with his directorial debut Cabin Fever. The film was made independently for a budget of $1.5 million dollars, sparked a frenzied sevenstudio bidding war, and went on to be Lionsgate's highest grossing film that year. Roth's follow-up film, Hostel which he wrote, produced and directed, earned him critical praise and was a massive worldwide hit, spawning a successful sequel, Hostel Part II, also written and directed by Roth.
Roth just completed shooting Amblin's The House with a Clock in its Walls, starring Cate Blanchett and Jack Black.
In 2015, Lionsgate released Roth's Sundance hit, Knock Knock, which stars Keanu Reeves as a happily married man whose life is quickly turned upside down by two nubile, stranded women with a sinister agenda. Additionally, Roth co-wrote, produced and directed The Green Inferno, which was shot on location in the Amazon, filming deeper into the jungle than any previous film. Also in 2015 & 2016, Roth hosted Discovery Channel's hugely popular Shark Week and it's late-night talk show Shark after Dark, both of which hit new network high ratings with Roth hosting.
As an actor, Roth has appeared in Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof" segment of Grindhouse (in which he also wrote and directed the popular faux trailer "Thanksgiving" that played between the features in the film) and Inglorious Basterds (in which he portrayed Sgt. Donnie Donowitz and directed the propaganda film-within-the-film, "Nation's Pride"). Roth and his cast members received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble, as well as the Broadcast Film Critic's Choice Award and the People's Choice Award. Roth also appeared in Nicolas Lopez's Aftershock, an earthquake thriller which he also wrote with Lopez and produced, which was released by Dimension. The film marks the start of Roth and Lopez's "Chilewood" partnership (including the films The Green Inferno and Knock Knock).
As a producer, Roth has produced the films, The Last Exorcism, The Man with the Iron Fists, The Last Exorcism Part II, and was an Executive Producer on the hit Emmy Nominated Netflix series, Hemlock Grove, which recently aired its final season. Additionally, Roth was executive producer on "South of Hell" with Jason Blum that aired on WE TV.
Roth has been honored with the Visionary Award at the inaugural Stanley Film Festival for his contributions to independent horror cinema, as well as the Visionary Filmmaker Award at the San Diego Film Festival. In 2014, Roth and Aftershock director Nicolas Lopez received the La De Dios Award at Austin's Fantastic Fest for their work filming and production work in Chile. Also in 2014, Roth co-founded The Crypt, a multi-platform digital channel for dark and edgy content. The Crypt's series to date have over 100 million views.
BRUCE WILLIS (Dr. Paul Kersey) has demonstrated incredible versatility in a career that has included such diverse characterizations as the prizefighter in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994 Palme D'Or winner at Cannes), the philandering contractor in Robert Benton's Nobody's Fool, the heroic time traveler in Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, the traumatized Vietnam veteran in Norman Jewison's In Country, the compassionate child psychologist in M. Night Shyamalan's Oscar-nominated The Sixth Sense (for which he won the People's Choice Award) and his signature role, Detective John McClane, in the Die Hard pentalogy.
Currently, Willis is filming the M. Night Shyamalan thriller Glass opposite Samuel L. Jackson and James McAvoy.
Following studies at Montclair State College's prestigious theater program, the New Jersey native honed his craft in several stage plays and countless television commercials, before landing the leading role in Sam Shepard's 1984 stage drama Fool for Love, a run which lasted for 100 performances off-Broadway.
Willis next won international stardom and several acting awards, including Emmy and Golden Globe honors, for his starring role as private eye David Addison on the hit television series Moonlighting, winning the role over 3,000 other contenders. At the same time, he made his motion picture debut opposite Kim Basinger in Blake Edwards' romantic comedy Blind Date.
In 1988, he originated the role of John McClane in the blockbuster film, Die Hard, one of the highest-grossing releases of that year. He later reprised the character in four sequels: Die Hard: Die Harder (1990), Die Hard: With A Vengeance (1995's global box-office champ), Live Free, Die Hard (one of the box-office hits of summer 2007) and a Good Day To Die Hard (2013).
His wide array of film roles includes collaborations with such respected and prolific filmmakers including Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom), Michael Bay (Armageddon), M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), Alan Rudolph (Mortal Thoughts, Breakfast of Champions), Walter Hill (Last Man Standing), Robert Benton (Billy Bathgate, Nobody's Fool), Rob Reiner (The Story of Us), Edward Zwick (The Siege), Luc Besson (The Fifth Element), Barry Levinson (Bandits, What Just Happened, Rock the Kasbah), Terry Gilliam (12 Monkey's), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Robert Zemeckis (Death Becomes Her) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Grind House).
Other motion picture credits include Red, The Jackal, Mercury Rising, Hart's War, The Whole Nine Yards (and its sequel The Whole Ten Yards), The Kid, Tears of the Sun, Hostage, 16 Blocks, Alpha Dog, Lucky Number Slevin, Perfect Stranger and Looper. He also voiced the character of the wise-cracking infant, Mikey, in Look Who's Talking and Look Who's Talking Too as well as the lead characters RJ & Spike in the animated hit features Over the Hedge and Rugrats Go Wild!
In addition to his work before the cameras, Willis made his Broadway debut last year as the author Paul Sheldon who's tormented by one of his readers (played by Laurie Metcalf) in a new stage adaptation of Stephen King's novel, Misery. He established his interest in theater when in 1997 he co-founded A Company of Fools, a non-profit theater troupe committed to developing and sustaining stage work in the Wood River Valley of Idaho, and throughout the U.S. He starred in and directed a staging of Sam Shepard's dark comedy True West at the Liberty Theater in Hailey, Idaho. The play, which depicts the troubled relationship between two brothers, was aired on Showtime and dedicated to Willis' late brother Robert.
An accomplished musician as well, Willis recorded the 1986 Motown album The Return of Bruno, which went platinum and contained the No. 5 Billboard hit "Respect Yourself." Three years later, he recorded a second album If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger. In 2002, he launched a U.S. club tour with his musical group, Bruce Willis and the Blues Band and he traveled to Iraq to play for U.S. servicemen.
ELISABETH SHUE (Lucy Kersey) has had an extensive film career that includes an Academy Award nomination for her performance as a prostitute mixed up with a suicidal alcoholic in Mike Figgis' Leaving Las Vegas. Her performance opposite Nicolas Cage also earned her a Best Actress award from the Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics, as well as nominations from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Golden Globes(r) and Screen Actors Guild Awards(r).
More recently, Shue co-starred in the films Battle of the Sexes, opposite Steve Carrell and Emma Stone; House at the End of the Street, opposite Jennifer Lawrence; Chasing Mavericks directed by Michael Apted and Curtis Hanson and starring Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston and Abigail Spencer; director David Frankel's Hope Springs, starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and Steve Carell; and Behaving Badly with Nat Wolff.
Shue's other film credits include David M. Rosenthal's Janie Jones with Abigail Breslin; Hamlet 2 opposite Catherine Keener and Steve Coogan; Davis Guggenheim's Gracie (which Shue co-produced); Hide & Seek opposite Dakota Fanning and Robert De Niro; Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, with Joseph Gordon Levitt; Amy and Isabelle, produced by Oprah Winfrey; Hollow Man, with Josh Brolin and Kevin Bacon; Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry; Phillip Noyce's The Saint; as well as earlier projects The Karate Kid; Adventures in Babysitting; Cocktail; Back to the Future Parts I and II and Soapdish.
Shue's theater credits include starring in Richard Nelson's "Some Americans Abroad" on Broadway as well as an Off Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's "Burn This" along with Peter Sarsgaard, Ty Burrell and Dallas Roberts.
She is an avid tennis player and currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, director Davis Guggenheim, and their three children.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO (Frank Kersey) will soon be stepping behind the camera with his directorial debut of The Kid, based on the infamous bandit, Billy The Kid. The film stars Ethan Hawke and Dane DeHaan, and is set to shoot this fall. Currently, Vincent is shooting SyFy's new paranormal series Ghost Wars" which he stars in and is due out later this year. Prior to that, Vincent wrapped shooting El Camino Christmas opposite Jessica Alba and Tim Allen.
On the small screen, Vincent most recently portrayed the complex role of The Wizard in NBC's reimagining of The Wizard of Oz," Emerald City. The 10-episode mini-series was directed by Tarsem Singh who Vincent worked with years earlier on The Cell opposite Jennifer Lopez. The year prior, Vincent starred in MGM's The Magnificent Seven, playing one of the seven gun slinging outlaws alongside Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke in additional to In Dubious Battle, based on John Steinbeck's novel, directed by James Franco and featuring Bryan Cranston, Ed Harris and Selena Gomez.
2015 was also a busy year for D'Onofrio with the blockbuster success of Jurassic World and the critically acclaimed role he played of Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin in the Netflix series "Daredevil," opposite Charlie Cox. Prior to that, he also starred in Run All Night opposite Liam Neeson and The Judge, opposite Robert Downey, Jr. and Robert Duvall.
D'Onofrio was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Hawaii, Colorado and Florida. He eventually returned to New York to study acting at the American Stanislavsky Theatre with Sharon Chatten of the Actors Studio. While honing his craft, he appeared in several films at New York University and worked as a bouncer at dance clubs in the city.
In 1984, he became a full-fledged member of the American Stanislavsky Theatre, appearing in "The Petrified Forest," "Of Mice and Men," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "The Indian Wants the Bronx." That same year, he made his Broadway debut in "Open Admissions." He recently starred off-Broadway in Sam Shepard's "Tooth of Crime (Second Dance)."
D'Onofrio gained attention for his intense and compelling talent on the screen in 1987 with a haunting portrayal of an unstable Vietnam War recruit in Stanley Kubrick's gritty Full Metal Jacket. His other early film appearances include Mystic Pizza and Adventures in Babysitting. He also executive produced and portrayed 1960s counterculture icon Abbie Hoffman in the film Steal This Movie, opposite Janeane Garofalo, and starred opposite Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn in the science-fiction noir film The Cell.
His other film credits include The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, opposite Jodie Foster; The Salton Sea, opposite Val Kilmer; Imposter, with Gary Sinise; Chelsea Walls, directed by Ethan Hawke; Happy Accidents, costarring Marisa Tomei; Robert Altman's The Player; Joel Schumacher's Dying Young; Tim Burton's Ed Wood; Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days, opposite Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett; Harold Ramis' Stuart Saves His Family; Barry Sonnenfeld's Men In Black, opposite Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; The Thirteenth Floor, opposite Craig Bierko; The Whole Wide World, which he produced and starred in, opposite Renée Zellweger; and Oliver Stone's JFK. More recently, D'Onofrio appeared in the sci-fi thriller The Tomb, featuring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and also recently finished Fire with Fire, opposite Bruce Willis and Josh Duhamel. Forthcoming film appearances also include the independent feature Chained, from writer-director Jennifer Chambers Lynch.
D'Onofrio starred as Detective Robert Goren in over 100 episodes of the series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." He received an Emmy Award nomination in 1998 for his riveting guest appearance in the "Homicide: Life on the Street" episode "The Subway." D'Onofrio directed, produced and starred in the short film, "Five Minutes, Mr. Welles," and recently appeared in the Academy Award-winning short "The New Tenants."
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