NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Stranger Things and Elvis alum Dacre Montgomery says it is a testament to the extraordinary talents of filmmaker Gus Van Sant if the new fact-based hostage drama, Dead Man's Wire, feels like a gritty classic from the 1970s.
"It really does feel like that in every way and there's so many little Easter eggs, like Al Pacino, obviously, coming from Dog Day Afternoon, the same year that this movie is set," Montgomery told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"There's so many amazing little treats in it," added the 31-year-old Australian actor. "It also makes the movie so much more accessible that it's not a big $50 million, shiny thing. It's actually rough around the edges and it's actually real. It's actually a conversation we need to be having right now in the world."
In theaters Friday, the film is based on the extraordinary true story of how Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgard) held mortgage broker Richard Hall (Montgomery) at gunpoint in a stand-off with police for 63 hours in 1977 Indianapolis.
The hostage situation became a media circus, with some people championing Kiritsis as a hero for standing up for himself against a company he accused of swindling him out of his life savings.
