Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for The Guilty (2021) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Paul Dano DIRECTOR: Antoine Fuqua CINEMATOGRAPHY: Maz Makhani MUSIC: Marcelo Zarvos PRODUCTION: Nine Stories Productions, Bold Films, Fuqua Films, Amet Entertainment, Endeavor Content, Capstone Pictures

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for The Guilty (2021). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

In December 2018, it was announced Jake Gyllenhaal had acquired rights to the 2018 Danish thriller film The Guilty, and would star in and produce a remake under his Nine Stories Productions banner, alongside Bold Films. In September 2020, it was announced Antoine Fuqua would direct and produce the film, from a screenplay by Nic Pizzolatto with uncredited revisions from Gyllenhaal. Later that month, Netflix acquired worldwide rights to the film for $30 million. In November 2020, Ethan Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard, Riley Keough, Paul Dano, Byron Bowers, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, David Castaneda, Christina Vidal, Adrian Martinez, Bill Burr, Beau Knapp and Edi Patterson joined the cast of the film.

Principal photography began in Los Angeles in November 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and lasted for 11 days. Three days before production was set to begin, a person in contact with director Antoine Fuqua tested positive for COVID-19. Fuqua tested negative subsequently, so the production was still on schedule. He directed the entire film from a van called Colorspace with screens that had access to the cameras, maintaining contact with the cast and the crew.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

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CRITICAL RECEPTION

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 74% based on 191 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Guilty is another Americanized remake overshadowed by the original, but its premise is still sturdy enough to support a tense, well-acted thriller." Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.