NEW YORK, March 14 (UPI) -- Stranger Things, The Princess Bride and Robin Hood: Men in Tights icon Cary Elwes says he thoroughly researched the life of Michael Grable, the real Indianapolis police detective he plays in Gus Van Sant's drama, Dead Man's Wire.
"I went to Indianapolis and spent some time down there and met with my character's kids, Michael and Jason, and they gave me a ton of material to work with -- audio, visual, photograph albums, everything, and his behavior and his likes, his dislikes, his favorite phrases," Elwes, 63, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview, noting Grable died nine years before the movie was released.
"I brought all of that to Louisville [where we filmed] and shared with Gus and he just handpicked certain things about the character that he wanted me to highlight."
Now available on digital platforms and DVD, the film was inspired by the 1977 gunpoint kidnapping of prominent banker Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery) by Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), a disgruntled client, who felt he had been swindled.
Grable was an undercover narcotics detective called upon to diffuse the life-or-death situation.
