The new cyberpunk thriller Kill Code is heading your way. In a grim future, the human body is treated like cheap hardware, controlled by the rich and powerful. Fortunately, some people still prefer their free will.
Set in a rainy, neon-drenched dystopian America ravaged by a Second Civil War, crime has become a deadly pandemic. Enter Alpire Industries CEO and scientist Eion Prescott (Harvey Keitel), who claims to have the ultimate cure. His solution is the ONYX Program, an aggressively dystopian initiative where AI-powered watches are strapped to known criminals. Instead of tracking steps, these watches inject criminals with nanobots carrying a deadly computer virus: the titular kill code.
The virus forces these tech-jacked criminals to battle each other to the death, with the bruised survivors supposedly earning redemption and their lives back. Of course, the corporation won’t be satisfied until they’ve eliminated human free will. The only thing standing in their way is a cyber-enhanced Alpire operative, played by newcomer Franzi Schissler, who discovers the corporate deception and teams up with a ragtag resistance movement to win humanity’s freedom back.
A Cast Full of Action Heavyweights
To take down an evil tech empire, you need a crew that knows how to throw a punch. Kill Code features a powerhouse lineup of genre veterans who are intimately familiar with high stakes:
Frank Grillo anchors the resistance as a definitive action icon. Grillo is currently pulling double duty across comic book universes, having played Hydra operative Brock Rumlow (Crossbones) in the MCU and government agent Rick Flag Sr. in the DCU’s upcoming Man of Tomorrow. He can also be seen fighting with Sylvester Stallone in the series “Tulsa King.”
Sharing the marquee is rapper and actor Tyrese Gibson, taking a brief detour from jumping cars out of airplanes in the Fast and Furious franchise and dodging giant metal aliens in Transformers. Gibson comes fresh off his stint in the action-horror-comedy Vampires of the Velvet Lounge, proving he’s ready for whatever weird sci-fi concepts this dystopia throws at him.
Anchoring the villainous corporate side is Oscar-nominated legend, Harvey Keitel. He is famous for his tough-guy status in Martin Scorsese masterpieces like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and The Irishman. Keitel brings class and calculation to the digital apocalypse.
Behind the Cyberpunk Blueprint
Written, directed by, and starring Justin Price (I Heart Robots), the film was originally titled Hard Matter before being renamed. It was actually filmed on location in Mississippi—proving you don’t need Hollywood backlots to build a terrifying corporate wasteland.
Kill Code drops Digitally on July 24.
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