War is changing. The days of pilots getting involved in a conflict are gone, and now they have all but been replaced by drones which they pilot remotely. Major Thomas Egan (Ethan Hawke) is a trained pilot who joined the army in order to fly. He is aiming his drone at a known terrorist hideout, when he is given the confirmation to fire. As the missile is fired, a child who is playing gets into the way of the missile - too late for the shot to be aborted. Egan knows what he has done, and despite completing the mission, he believes he has failed. From that point on, he will be haunted by the thought of the "good kill".
'Good Kill' comes from writer/director Andrew Niccol ('The Truman Show', 'In Time') and producer Nicolas Chartier ('The Hurt Locker', 'Dallas Buyers Club'). The film opened on 5th September 2014 at the Venice Film Festival where it competed for the Golden Lion awards, before showing at Toronto International Film Festival on 9th September and then Zurich Film Festival on 26th September. The film is set to release theatrically on 10th April 2015.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Jake Abel, Bruce Greenwood, Akshay Patel, Kristen Rakes, Stafford Douglas, Alma Sisneros, Dylan Kenin, Michael Sheets, Jessica Stotz Harrell, Stephen M. Hardin, Rich Chavez, Bill Seward