It took more than eighteen years for writer/director Nick Cassavetes to manage to get an adaptation of the Boston Teran novel God Is a Bullet (pick up a copy Here) into production, but he stuck with the project, and his film received a wide theatrical release last month. A week ago, it was given a digital release as well – but now it has come to our attention that there are two different cuts of the movie out there. If you seek out the digital version in the United States, you’ll find that the cut available is the full 156 minute cut. But if you go to rent or purchase the digital release in Canada, you’ll find that the movie has been trimmed down to 120 minutes.
We don’t know exactly why the Canadian digital release is 36 minutes shorter than the U.S. digital release. On the Blu-ray.com forums,...
We don’t know exactly why the Canadian digital release is 36 minutes shorter than the U.S. digital release. On the Blu-ray.com forums,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
A movie about a pair of unlikely friends teaming up to infiltrate a cult is always going to rest on two things: the friends having chemistry and the cult being interesting. You’d really prefer to have both of those elements working for you, but a filmmaker can get by as long as one of them is strong. Unfortunately for everyone involved, “God Is a Bullet” has neither.
Nick Cassavetes’ adaptation of Boston Teran’s novel of the same name is an ambitious mess that features wild highs (a snake doing meth!) and impossibly dull lows (most everything else). Overly long and gratuitously violent, the bloated revenge thriller seems obsessed with reminding us of how much evil is in the world without showing the slightest bit of interest in explaining how it got there.
The one thing everyone in Detective Bob Hightower’s (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) life can agree on is...
Nick Cassavetes’ adaptation of Boston Teran’s novel of the same name is an ambitious mess that features wild highs (a snake doing meth!) and impossibly dull lows (most everything else). Overly long and gratuitously violent, the bloated revenge thriller seems obsessed with reminding us of how much evil is in the world without showing the slightest bit of interest in explaining how it got there.
The one thing everyone in Detective Bob Hightower’s (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) life can agree on is...
- 6/22/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Adapted from the author’s 1999 debut novel, “God Is A Bullet” is the first screen translation of a work by one Boston Teran, a prolific but pseudononymous scribe of popular page-turners. Those tomes have been well-received by thriller fans, though others have speculated they might be a genre put-on penned by possibly more than one well-known literary figure. Nick Cassavetes’ slick adaptation certainly maintains the book’s mix of lurid incident and pontificating pretentiousness — albeit without the kind of intensity that might have made this far-fetched story credible, or the atmospheric style that might’ve pulled it off as a fevered nightmare à la David Lynch instead.
These 156 minutes, with cop Nicolaj Coster-Waldau and escaped captive Maika Monroe pursuing the cult of devil-worshipping scumbags who’ve kidnapped his daughter, are not exactly dull. But they are rather ludicrous, without being much fun. It’s hard not to imagine this overlong,...
These 156 minutes, with cop Nicolaj Coster-Waldau and escaped captive Maika Monroe pursuing the cult of devil-worshipping scumbags who’ve kidnapped his daughter, are not exactly dull. But they are rather ludicrous, without being much fun. It’s hard not to imagine this overlong,...
- 6/22/2023
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Revenge thrillers tend to be most effective when they’re lean and mean. Such is definitely not the case with the new film from writer-director Nick Cassavetes, his first since 2014’s The Other Woman. Based on Boston Teran’s well-received 1999 novel, God Is a Bullet squanders its provocative premise with a ridiculously bloated running time (155 minutes, and you feel every one of them) and gratuitous violence that lends a cartoonish sheen to a story aspiring to gritty realness. Despite its talented cast, who demonstrate a willingness to go for broke in their portrayals, the film comes across like a pretentious version of an ‘80s-era Charles Bronson actioner.
Actually, Bronson would have been perfect for the role of detective Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), whose ex-wife and her new husband are brutally murdered by the members of a cult who seemed to have watched The Hills Have Eyes too many times. In...
Actually, Bronson would have been perfect for the role of detective Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), whose ex-wife and her new husband are brutally murdered by the members of a cult who seemed to have watched The Hills Have Eyes too many times. In...
- 6/22/2023
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A few weeks ago, we learned that Patriot Pictures and XYZ Films are teaming up with Wayward Entertainment to give the Satanic cult thriller God Is a Bullet a wide domestic theatrical release on June 23rd, with a digital release to follow on July 11th. Now a trailer for God Is a Bullet has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above to see whether or not this is a movie you’ll want to watch this summer.
Actor turned writer/director Nick Cassavetes, best known to many as the director of The Notebook but to me as the villain in The Wraith, was at the helm of God Is a Bullet, which is based on a novel by Boston Teran (pick up a copy Here). Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Maika Monroe, the film follows detective Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who finds his ex-wife murdered and...
Actor turned writer/director Nick Cassavetes, best known to many as the director of The Notebook but to me as the villain in The Wraith, was at the helm of God Is a Bullet, which is based on a novel by Boston Teran (pick up a copy Here). Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Maika Monroe, the film follows detective Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who finds his ex-wife murdered and...
- 5/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
For Chloe Guy, the age of 15 has been nothing if not memorable.
So far in 2021, the young actress has overcome an on-set injury, been announced as the youth winner of the Carmen Duncan Scholarship, and begun shooting a film in Mexico.
The international production is her focus for the moment, with the teenager honing her craft alongside Jamie Foxx, January Jones, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Nick Cassavetes’ upcoming crime thriller God is a Bullet.
Guy plays the kidnapped daughter of vice detective Bob Hightower (Coster-Waldau), who ends up quitting the police force and confronting the satanic cult responsible for taking his child and murdering his ex-wife.
Cassavetes adapted the script from Boston Teran’s novel of the same name.
With this being her largest role to date, Guy described her experience on set as being part of “one massive family”.
“All the cast and crew take very good care of me,...
So far in 2021, the young actress has overcome an on-set injury, been announced as the youth winner of the Carmen Duncan Scholarship, and begun shooting a film in Mexico.
The international production is her focus for the moment, with the teenager honing her craft alongside Jamie Foxx, January Jones, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Nick Cassavetes’ upcoming crime thriller God is a Bullet.
Guy plays the kidnapped daughter of vice detective Bob Hightower (Coster-Waldau), who ends up quitting the police force and confronting the satanic cult responsible for taking his child and murdering his ex-wife.
Cassavetes adapted the script from Boston Teran’s novel of the same name.
With this being her largest role to date, Guy described her experience on set as being part of “one massive family”.
“All the cast and crew take very good care of me,...
- 7/23/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Project rounds out key cast; currently in production in Mexico.
XYZ Films’ Cannes sales title God Is A Bullet from Patriot Pictures, which is directed by Nick Cassavetes and stars Game Of Thrones favourite Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, has rounded out its key cast as production continues in Mexico.
Karl Glusman, David Thornton, Paul Johannson, Johnathan Tucker, Ethan Suplee, Garret Wareing, Brendan Sexton III, Virginia Cassavetes and Chloe Guy have joined previously announced Coster-Waldau (pictured in an exclusive first-look from the set), Maika Monroe, January Jones, and Jamie Foxx.
God Is A Bullet is in its sixth week of principal photography and...
XYZ Films’ Cannes sales title God Is A Bullet from Patriot Pictures, which is directed by Nick Cassavetes and stars Game Of Thrones favourite Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, has rounded out its key cast as production continues in Mexico.
Karl Glusman, David Thornton, Paul Johannson, Johnathan Tucker, Ethan Suplee, Garret Wareing, Brendan Sexton III, Virginia Cassavetes and Chloe Guy have joined previously announced Coster-Waldau (pictured in an exclusive first-look from the set), Maika Monroe, January Jones, and Jamie Foxx.
God Is A Bullet is in its sixth week of principal photography and...
- 6/24/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Emerging and aspiring actors looking to launch into the next phase of their careers are being encouraged to apply for this year’s American Arts Film and Television Academy (Aafta) Carmen Duncan Scholarship.
Named after the late Australian actress and activist, the initiative offers a path to the US market for acting talent via targeted packages worth more than Usd$25,000.
They include online and in-person training on various aspects of the industry, as well as help with visas and immigration services.
Duncan blazed a trail for Australian actors in the US during the ’80s, portraying Iris Carrington Wheeler on the daytime soap opera Another World, a role for which she was honoured not only with nominations for the Soap Opera Awards but also an Emmy nomination.
She passed away in February 2019 at the age of 76 after a battle with gynaecological cancer.
This will be the third year the scholarship has been run,...
Named after the late Australian actress and activist, the initiative offers a path to the US market for acting talent via targeted packages worth more than Usd$25,000.
They include online and in-person training on various aspects of the industry, as well as help with visas and immigration services.
Duncan blazed a trail for Australian actors in the US during the ’80s, portraying Iris Carrington Wheeler on the daytime soap opera Another World, a role for which she was honoured not only with nominations for the Soap Opera Awards but also an Emmy nomination.
She passed away in February 2019 at the age of 76 after a battle with gynaecological cancer.
This will be the third year the scholarship has been run,...
- 6/10/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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