‘Boy Kills World’: Bill Skarsgård Is Out For Blood And Revenge - Trailer

Apr 6

From Ryan Cordaro

It feels like we’re coming into a new age of Western action movies. Whether it’s realistic violence or cartoonishly gory, it feels like anyone and everyone is trying to get in on the action. In my opinion, it all feels like the influence of the past decade or so of small-scale action movies can boil down to one name: John Wick. I can ramble on for a while about how influential that movie and franchise alone has made such a big impact on recent action movies, but I’ll leave it at this little point: Everyone wants their John Wick. Even people that have been in the John Wick franchise like Bill Skarsgård want in on the action, and it looks like we have that in Boy Kills World.

Opening to good reviews at TIFF last year, Boy Kills World follows a deaf, mute man named Boy who escapes to the jungle, where he is trained by a mysterious mentor to enact vengeance on the men who murdered his family. Chaos ensues as Boy commits bloody martial arts mayhem, inciting a wrath of carnage and blood-letting. As he tries to get his bearings in this delirious realm, Boy soon falls in with a desperate resistance group, all the while bickering with the apparent ghost of his rebellious little sister. An interesting element in the movie is that it will also be narrated by Boy’s inner monologue, who takes his voice from the announcer of a fighting arcade game.

Produced by Sam Raimi, Boy Kills World has a star-studded cast including Bill Skarsgård (It, the upcoming The Crow), Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day, La La Land), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey, The Gentlemen), Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, The Other Guys), Isaiah Mustafa (It Chapter Two, Shadowhunters), Yayan Ruhian (The Raid: Redemption, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens), Andrew Koji (Bullet Train, Warrior), Sharlto Copley (District 9, Monkey Man), H. Jon Benjamin (Bob’s Burgers, Archer), and Famke Janssen (the X-Men franchise, Knights of the Zodiac).