Those Who Wish Me Dead is an upcoming American neo-Western survival action thriller film directed by Taylor Sheridan with a screenplay by Michael Koryta, Charles Leavitt, and Sheridan, based on Koryta's novel of the same name.[1] The film stars Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Aidan Gillen, Medina Senghore, Tyler Perry, Jake Weber, and Jon Bernthal.
The film centers around a young teenage boy who witnesses the murder of his father near a large national forest.
Pursued by assassins intent on silencing him, the boy soon meets a veteran fire warden and wilderness survival expert who offers him shelter in her lookout tower. When the assassins set fire to the forest in order to cover their tracks, the pair must both survive a deadly blaze that threatens to consume them and outwit the killers on their trail.
Those Who Wish Me Dead is scheduled to be released in the United States on May 14, 2021, by Warner Bros. Pictures under the New Line Cinema banner, both in theaters and on HBO Max.