Hard Kill

Hard Kill is a 2020 American action thriller film directed by Matt Eskandari, starring Jesse Metcalfe, Bruce Willis, and Natalie Eva Marie. It was released on August 21, 2020, by Vertical Entertainment. Plot Upset that her revolutionary technology will be misused for military purposes, Eva Chalmers approaches an extremist known as the Pardoner, who promises to help her use it to save the world. When she balks at his terrorist plans, he takes her hostage and attempts to coerce her father, Donovan, into revealing the code to activate it. Donovan hires a team of mercenaries led by Derek Miller to rescue Eva and recover the tech. Cast Jesse Metcalfe as Derek Miller Bruce Willis as Donovan Chalmers Natalie Eva Marie as Sasha Lala Kent as Eva Chalmers Texas Battle as Nicholas Fox Sergio Rizzuto as The Pardoner Swen Temmel as Dash Hawkins Tyler Jon Olson as Lt. Colton Jacquie Nguyen as Gemma Leslee Emmett as Crystal Production Principal photography began in January 2020 in Cincinnati, under the working title Open Source. According to the Los Angeles Times and actress Lala Kent, an incident occurred on set when Bruce Willis incidentally fired a gun loaded with blanks on the wrong cue and then did it again on the next take. Nobody was injured but the report said the incident left some crew members "shaken". Hard Kill is one of the last films to star Willis, who retired from acting because he was diagnosed with aphasia.