Kill the Messenger

Gary Webb uncovers evidence of government-sponsored cocaine sales and the CIAs involvement, leading to a media frenzy, backlash, and ultimately his resignation and alleged suicide. Kill the Messenger is a 2014 American English-language Biography Crime film featuring Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rosemarie Dewitt, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson, Barry Pepper and David Cooke. The movie is based on Kill the Messenger by Nick Schou Dark Alliance by Gary Webb. Bluegrass Films in association with The Combine. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Pamela Abdy, Scott Stuber, Naomi Despres and Jeremy Renner. Kill the Messenger is written by Peter Landesman, Gary Webb and Nick Schou and it is directed by Michael Cuesta. Focus Features acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Kill the Messenger was released on 13th November 2014 and takes a screen time of 112 minutes. Kill the Messenger was made on a budget of $5 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $5 million. Cinematography was done by Sean Bobbitt and editing by Brian A. Kates. The music was composed by Nathan Johnson along with Nathan G. Johnson.