Bill Skarsgård & Colman Domingo’s Acclaimed Crime Movie Out on Netflix Today

Bill Skarsgård and Colman Domingo‘s highly rated crime drama movie has finally found a streaming home. As of today, the 2026 film Dead Man’s Wire is officially available to stream on Netflix, more than four months after it was released in theaters.

What do we know about Bill Skarsgård & Colman Domingo’s Dead Man’s Wire movie?

In Dead Man’s Wire, Skarsgård plays Tony Kiritsis, a desperate man who unexpectedly becomes an outlaw hero after kidnapping his mortgage broker. Meanwhile, Domingo portrays a local radio DJ who becomes the negotiator between Tony and the police. Following its world premiere at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival, the movie garnered positive reviews from critics. It currently has a Fresh score of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 163 reviews.

“Based on a true story, the 1977 kidnapping of a prominent banker grips the nation and turns the abductor into an outlaw folk hero. As the media frenzy peaks, the standoff becomes a spectacle of desperation, defiance, and blurred justice, which resonates even today,” reads the movie’s official synopsis.

Dead Man’s Wire also starred Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things), Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride), Myha’la (Industry), Al Pacino (The Irishman), Jordan Claire Robbins (The Umbrella Academy), Daniel R. Hill (Second Chances), and more. The film was directed by Good Will Hunting filmmaker Gus Van Sant, with Austin Kolodney writing the screenplay. It was produced by Cassian Elwes, Mark Amin, Sam Pressman, Tom Culliver, Andrea Bucko, Billy Hines, Veronica Radaelli, Matt Murphie, Paula Paizes, Joel David Moore, Remi Alfallah, Noor Alfallah, Siena Oberman, and Gordon Clark.

Source: Comingsoon.net