Righteous Kill Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

The movie will cast Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as cops chasing a serial killer.

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own--take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

Action Adventure Crime Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Righteous Kill.

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  Robert De Niro

  Zero Day (limited series), The Comeback Trail

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  Al Pacino

  The Ritual, Billy Knight

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  50 Cent

  Escape Plan, The Prince

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  Donnie Wahlberg

  Zookeeper, The Sixth Sense

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  Carla Gugino

  The Friend, Heads of State

Crew Behind the Film

The Righteous Kill behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Jon Avnet last directed Three Christs and 88 Minutes. The film's writer Russell Gewirtz last wrote Inside Man: Most Wanted and Tower Heist.

Director

Jon Avnet

Screenwriter

Russell Gewirtz

Producers

Danny Dimbort
Avi Lerner
Trevor Short

Production Details

What we know about the Righteous Kill movie production.

Key Facts

• The movie is being billed as an "indie" production, but has a reported budget of $60 million! Shooting will begin in August in Connecticut followed by New York (05/25/07).

Production Updates for Righteous Kill

Dec 2004

Completed

Changed Righteous Kill movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

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