Righteous Kill Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Dec. 20, 2008

Righteous Kill

Release Date: Friday, September 12, 2008

Robert De Niro, Carla Gugino, Avi Lerner, 50 Cent, Jon Avnet, Al Pacino, Trevor Short, Danny Dimbort, Donnie Wahlberg, Russell Gewirtz

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

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

Plot

What's the story about?

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

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Righteous Kill.

Robert De Niro
Alto Knights, Limitless
Al Pacino
The Ritual, Knox Goes Away
50 Cent
Spy, Twelve
Donnie Wahlberg
The Sixth Sense, Annapolis
Carla Gugino
New Year's Eve, Mr. Popper's Penguins

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

Studios: Overture Films
Production Company: Emmett/Furla Films; Millennium Films

Additional Information

MPA Rating: R Restricted for violence, pervasive language, some sexuality and brief drug use
Runtime: N/A
Tagline: Not available
Also known as: Not available
Language: English

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Official Righteous Kill movie trailers and clips.

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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).

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