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Three years ago, the world first responded to The Purge, a provocative concept where for one night each year all crimes are not only legal, but encouraged by the government. The Purge and The Purge: Anarchy, released in 2013 and 2014, respectively, electrified the culture and earned $200 million at the worldwide box office.
The Purge: Election Year reveals the next terrifying chapter that occurs during these 12 hours of annual lawlessness. A speculative thriller, the film returns us to a dystopian future…this time on the eve of a heated presidential election with the nation deeply divided between those who are pro- and anti-Purge.
Now run by the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA), our government has sanctioned its annual Purge to ensure that the crime rate stays below one percent for the rest of the year. But a revolution is brewing among protestors who believe The Purge is the leadership’s covert way of eliminating the poor and vulnerable to allow only the elites to thrive.
Over the course of night fraught with mayhem and chaos, we follow an unlikely group of allies who find themselves in the shadows of Washington, D.C., during The Purge. Now, as they uncover the explosive conspiracy behind the NFFA—one that is coming from the very elected leaders who promised to make their lives better—five heroes will find out how far they’ll go to protect what they believe in and who they love.
It’s time to take to the streets of our nation’s capital, and this Purge Night, the soul of the country is at stake.
It has been two years since Leo Barnes (FRANK GRILLO of The Purge: Anarchy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Zero Dark Thirty) stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night in the gripping conclusion of The Purge: Anarchy. Now, Leo serves as head of security for Sen. Charlie Roan (ELIZABETH MITCHELL of TV’s Lost, Once Upon a Time); his mission is to protect her during her controversial and contested run for president.
Like Leo, senator Roan has suffered tremendous loss. As the only member of her family to survive a Purge Night many years ago, she has dedicated her life and her presidential campaign to abolishing the ritual she knows targets the poor and innocent. And this is the one move that has both made her increasingly popular with the public and placed a target on her back.
In the area of D.C. few politicians care about—unless there are photo-ops to be had—Joe (MYKELTI WILLIAMSON of Forrest Gump, TV’s Justified) owns a deli that is a cornerstone of the neighborhood. On the eve of this year’s Purge Night, he learns that his Purge insurance rates have skyrocketed and he can no longer pay for the protection afforded the wealthy. With no money or means, Joe must brave the harsh streets of D.C., risking his life to defend his livelihood and his adopted family.
After escaping a war-torn country of his own, Joe’s longtime employee, Marcos (JOSEPH JULIAN SORIA of Crank: High Voltage, TV’s Army Wives), managed to achieve a piece of the American dream, thanks to Joe. Marcos stands by his boss to protect their business, and as the night of mayhem unfolds, the crimes Marcos was forced to commit for survival in his homeland prove critical to their survival.
A tough woman with an even tougher past, Laney’s (BETTY GABRIEL of Experimenter) violent exploits as a teen have given her celebrity status among Purgers. She’s turned her life around with the help of Joe—who like Marcos, she sees as a father figure—and atones for her sins by driving a triage van on Purge Night to save victims of violence. All she cares about is safety and redemption.
When a betrayal in Sen. Roan’s security forces her onto the streets of D.C. on the one night when no help is available, Joe, Laney and Marcos join forces with Leo to save her from an assassination attempt by the NFFA. These unlikely allies must team up to fight—and even kill—for their lives as they are hunted across the city by the darkest of forces. If they can keep the senator alive until dawn, they save the country’s only hope at eliminating The Purge...and found the peace for which they’ve so long prayed.
Once again returning to collaborate with franchise creator JAMES DEMONACO (writer/director of The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy) on The Purge: Election Year are the franchise’s producers: Blumhouse Productions’ JASON BLUM (Insidious and Ouija series, The Visit), Platinum Dunes partners MICHAEL BAY, BRAD FULLER and ANDREW FORM (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Ouija series, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), and writer/director DeMonaco’s longtime production partner, SÉBASTIEN K. LEMERCIER (Assault on Precinct 13, Four Lovers).
For the third film in the series, DeMonaco has assembled an accomplished behind-the-scenes crew that includes director of photography JACQUES JOUFFRET (Lone Survivor, The Purge series), production designer SHARON LOMOFSKY (Man on Wire, Bring It On) and costume designer ELISABETH VASTOLA (Stake Land, Cold in July). Composer NATHAN WHITEHEAD (The Purge series, TV’s The Last Ship) returns to score the third installment.
The Purge: Election Year is executive produced by series collaborators LUC ETIENNE, JEANETTE VOLTURNO and COUPER SAMUELSON.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
Keep America Great:
The Purge: Election Year Begins
In The Purge and The Purge: Anarchy, moviegoers were shocked by the deceptively simple premise brought to life by writer/director James DeMonaco, who drew his inspiration from classic works such as Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.”
The films of The Purge series explore how society crumbles when a corrupt government encourages people to take the law into their own hands and prey upon the poorest of our society, and what happens to citizens encouraged to share in that vigilante mentality.
Following the first two films’ success, he returned to this explosive universe to create the third chapter in the hit franchise—this time, on a much grander scale. DeMonaco created this series as an allegory, asking questions such as: “What if people in our government were trying to force us to tear each other apart and destroy those within the most vulnerable strata of society? Would I fall victim to this, or would I fight the machine itself?”
Quite the rare occurrence in the world of genre film, The Purge: Election Year marks the return of the same writer/director in the same duty for all three chapters of this trilogy. “The idea with The Purge series was always to combine various genres; in fact, you go into the films with a potpourri of them,” explains DeMonaco of his passion for the series. “You have action. You have horror. You have some sci-fi, dystopian and utopian future elements in them. There’s also an underlying political message here.”
Still, for the writer/director the timing of this chapter of the thriller was not intentional. “It turned out to be in our favor, but I wrote the script in 2014 so it was sheer luck,” he shares. “The film doesn’t draw on any particular candidate, but with the wildness of this election cycle, it’s understandable to draw that conclusion.”
For DeMonaco and his frequent collaborator, Sébastien Lemercier, The Purge: Election Year was a natural evolution in a franchise that just kept growing in size and in scope. The Purge took place in an upper-class family’s home and immediate neighborhood. The Purge: Anarchy uncovered government conspiracy by taking the premise into the streets and showing the horrific evening from the viewpoint of average citizens.
“The Purge: Election Year goes even bigger in scope, taking us straight to the heart of the corruption and into the minds and the homes of the political leaders who rule this universe we’ve created,” Lemercier explains. “The results of their decisions are coming straight to their doorsteps.”
For the third episode in the series, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions would lead the production team. The film’s behind-the-scenes crew knew that their writer/director’s instincts were responsible for the success of the first two thrillers and had faith that he would go even bigger with his next offering.
As the producer of such enormous hits as the films in the Paranormal Activity and Insidious series, as well as The Visit, last year’s collaboration with M. Night Shyamalan, Blum understands how to parlay successful smaller-budget films into a blockbuster franchise. This fact is quite evident through the success of the first two films in The Purge series, which are part of Blumhouse’s first-look deal with Universal Pictures.
“As a writer and director, James is a master at building suspense and creating thrilling, thought-provoking movies,” says Blum. “With the third installment, James just went for it. It was important for him to widen further the scope and explore a massive conspiracy in the films—one that’s coming from the very top of the elected leaders of the world that he’s created.”
Blum prefers working with experienced filmmakers like DeMonaco and allowing them the creative freedom to pursue their visions while ensuring the film stays on schedule and on budget. “What has long appealed to me about lower-budget productions is the nonstop creativity and energy they infuse throughout a production,” Blum offers. “As the writer/director of this entire series, James understands not only every single element of the unique story he’s telling, but just how all the parts move on a production of this size. He does a great job of allowing each movie to stand on its own while weaving central themes and characters to bridge a narrative between the films.”
Once again Blumhouse partnered with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes on this chapter. Continuing the subversive tale of the NFFA’s annual Purge and those fighting against it was important to Brad Fuller, who knew that moviegoers would respond to expanding the world DeMonaco imagined. “As James mentions, this film encompasses several genres: It’s a mix of horror, action and thriller with an underlying political message,” he says. “There’s also much more at stake with this installment: It’s more than a group of people surviving one grisly night; it’s about if The Purge will survive and ultimately, if the morality of a country can be saved.”
Andrew Form, Fuller’s production partner at Platinum Dunes, shares that DeMonaco, first and foremost, focuses on engaging moviegoers through compelling storytelling. “There’s a lot of humanity in the way that James writes,” the producer offers. “He writes about ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances, and it’s relatable and believable; that’s what makes it so intriguing.”
The thriller’s portrayal of what it means to be a family in the terrifying times explored in the series gives The Purge even more depth and a sense of humanity. “There are these terrific character arcs and family dynamics between Joe, Laney and Marcos,” says Form. “It’s this whole other element that you wouldn’t expect to see in a Purge movie.”
DeMonaco relies upon two principal characters to provide continuity and take us through the trilogy. The Stranger from the first film, who seeks safety inside the Sandin family’s home and reappears as a revolutionary in Anarchy, has a key role in the new film. DeMonaco explains that audiences see the evolution of The Purge through the eyes of Dante Bishop (EDWIN HODGE of The Purge: Anarchy, The Purge). “In the first film he’s hunted, and by the third film he’s a revolutionary leader hunting the NFFA’s presidential candidate,” DeMonaco says of the mysterious rebel leader. “Essentially, he has become just like his captors.”
Also returning in the third film is Leo, a former cop who is determined to take vengeance into his own hands in the second chapter of the franchise. “As someone who almost purged, Leo has seen the belly of the beast and how The Purge is destroying lives and the country,” advises DeMonaco. “He will do whatever it takes to get the senator into the White House, where she can abolish The Purge for good.”
Who Will You Become?
Casting the Thriller
With The Purge: Election Year, DeMonaco wanted to give audiences a bold thriller that didn’t sacrifice character development. To do this, he dedicated much of the first part of the film to the cast and each character’s unique situation as Purge Night approaches. “I want audiences to get to know the characters and care about them,” says DeMonaco. “I also wanted to create strong male and female leads who are not only fighting for survival, but fighting to take the power back from those who have abused it.”
Back in the role of our haunted hero, Leo, is Frank Grillo, who rocketed to stardom in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and has been a standout in The Purge universe. “Unlike a lot of actors I’ve worked with, Frank’s a tough guy in real life and that comes across on screen,” offers DeMonaco. “I grew up with actors like Charles Bronson and Steve McQueen, who were also real-life tough guys. Frank is an accomplished martial artist and embodies those great actors of the ’70s. He’s not pretending, and I think that’s why audiences like him as the hero.”
Grillo, who also starred in Anarchy, was excited to join DeMonaco in his latest installment, particularly with its political undertones. “James wrote and directed all three films so he truly understands this world he’s created,” says Grillo. “He has a really clear vision of what he wants and that’s such a benefit as an actor.”
The film’s many fight sequences also appealed to Grillo, who performed many of his own stunts including hand-to-hand combat scenes. “There were twice as many stunts in this Purge than the last, and I have the bruises to prove it,” says Grillo.
To eliminate the senator and win the election, the NFFA has changed the rules of The Purge and for the first time elected officials are no longer safe. While under the veil of equality that everyone—rich or poor—is now susceptible to The Purge, the NFFA’s true agenda is to murder the senator.
The NFFA infiltrates the senator’s security and when Leo and Roan narrowly escape, they’re hunted by mercenaries hired by the NFFA, including EARL (TERRY SERPICO of TV’s The Inspectors), the head gun for hire who won’t stop until he takes the senator out.
“It took five hours to shoot a massively choreographed minute-and-a-half-long brutal knife fight between Leo and Earl that we spent probably 10 hours rehearsing,” says DeMonaco. “Frank is a talented fighter with very fast hands. There were stunt doubles, but for the majority of that fight, it was the two actors trading blows.”
When seeking who to play the unwavering Sen. Roan, a woman determined to not see another Purge in her lifetime, filmmakers sought out actress Elizabeth Mitchell. In addition to playing a powerful female role, Mitchell was excited to serve as the film’s strong moral compass.
“James and I tossed this idea around that you can’t be righteous only when it suits you,” says Mitchell. “The senator is good all the time; that’s the reason I wanted to take this role. She doesn’t want anyone to be killed in her name because then she starts her presidency with blood on her hands instead of starting it pure.”
A loose cannon, Sen. Roan fearlessly walks into crowds without warning on the campaign trail, despite Leo’s appeals to her safety. On Purge Night she chooses to not lock herself away like society’s elite but instead stay at home like her constituents, which makes a strong political statement, but in a terrifying turn of events, puts her in the line of fire.
“She’s so willing to give absolutely everything to win,” Mitchell says. “Leo and Roan are both truly driven by loss. Her entire existence has been dedicated to getting rid of this one thing. That’s what she’s based her life on, and that’s what makes her so brave.”
Like Grillo, Mitchell was eager to perform the film’s many action scenes. “I love doing stunts. I’ll do everything that they’ll let me do,” says Mitchell. “The stuff that might break me, they tend to frown on letting me try, but if I’m just going to get banged up a little, I’m game.”
Next up, filmmakers went in search of actor to play Joe (MYKELTI WILLIAMSON) the film’s father figure. “Marcos is the son he never had and Laney is like his adoptive daughter,” says Williamson.
When murder tourists—The Purge has become a popular and lucrative tourist attraction—have Leo and the senator trapped, Joe and MARCOS (JOSEPH JULIAN SORIA) come to their aid. Initially, Joe is reluctant to help the senator or trust Leo. “Joe is not really for any politician. He actually tells the senator that he gave up his faith in politics a long time ago,” says Williamson. “He does decide to help her and Leo because they’re human beings and that’s the only reason.”
To play Marcos, filmmakers looked no further than television actor Joseph Julian Soria, who was drawn to the character’s complexity. Every day in Juarez was like The Purge for Marcos; he had to fight to survive and he’s willing to use those skills to defend those he cares about, particularly Joe. “Marcos has a good heart but has done bad things in the past to survive,” says Soria. “We all have someone we would take a bullet for, and for Marcos, that person is Joe.”
To capture Laney’s tough persona, filmmakers turned to newcomer Betty Gabriel. A fighter, Laney survived a dangerous past and has the scars to prove it, and now protests The Purge by driving a triage van to save victims of violence. “She recognizes her past sins and is atoning for them. She’s purging but in a different way,” says Gabriel. “She’s such a great character to embody because she has no fear.”
The actress also appreciated that the script explored humanity’s darker side. “It’s already within us to commit violent acts and The Purge gives us permission. That’s what makes it so scary,” says Gabriel. “These crimes are premeditated so they can be carried out within this window. People are harboring this hatred and just waiting for the moment to act.”
Laney fends off Purgers and takes Joe, Marcos and the senator to an underground triage center that houses medical staff that protest The Purge by hiding the poor and vulnerable and treating anyone left bloody and battered. Much like medics during war, there’s an unwritten rule among Purgers to leave these volunteers alone.
For the featured villain in this chapter, DeMonaco envisioned creating a candidate to represent the NFFA on a public platform. MINISTER OWENS (KYLE SECOR of TV’s Resurrection) believes The Purge is what makes America great, and advocates purging in the name of God and country. “I channeled old televangelists like Kenneth Hagin who spoke in tongues to create this character,” reveals DeMonaco. “He preaches that murder is the new religion and purging purifies the soul. The minister represents the dark side of religion and how our beliefs can push us into dangerous places.”
Building a New America:
Behind the Scenes
Design and Locations
To evoke the feel of an NFFA-run country, production designer Sharon Lomofsky began creating a believable, dystopian America. She shares: “We shot in Providence, Rhode Island. The city itself is thriving, but the towns around Providence were perfect for our inner city neighborhoods,” she explains. “We found an area just outside this small, all-American town that didn’t have all the shine of Providence.”
Lomofsky and her team were tasked with designing and choosing environments the movie demanded: in addition to the senator’s warm abode, this including Joe’s deli, a struggling business among rows of abandoned shops, just across town.
“We wanted to create a warm, old-fashioned deli, a place where time has stood still and people gather to chat, like so many delis and bodegas around large, urban centers,” she says. “On the main street that we used for Joe’s location, many of the stores were empty. However, the town still continued to display beautiful hanging baskets of flowers that were watered every day.”
In a universe under fascist rule that abides by the law except Purge night, Lomofsky wanted to portray an absence of individual freedom and expression. “We kept the streets as clean, empty and expressionless as possible,” she says. “It felt eerie as we are so used to visual noise in our urban environments, particularly inner cities.”
For a key scene that shows Minister Owens and his followers celebrating The Purge with a human sacrifice, Lomofsky and DeMonaco searched the city for the perfect setting. “James wanted to create a utilitarian world, and when we looked at the cathedral, it spoke to us as being the right choice,” she says.
To set the scene of the elite members of the NFFA promoting killing as purification, Lomofsky and DeMonaco used colors from a provocative palette. “We wanted to show the juxtaposition of beauty and the horror added to the incomprehensible actions taking place on Purge night,” says the production designer. “The undertones of the theme of hypocrisy and violence, I am sure, will not be missed.”
Costumes of the Thriller
Seasoned costume designer Elisabeth Vastola was brought on to dress the cast, making sure their clothing matched their characters and circumstances.
Although the film is set in the future, Vastola and her team took great care to ensure the costumes for Laney, Marcos, Joe, Leo and the senator made them feel relatable. She shares: “Though each character is obviously very different from one another, it was important for me to visually set them up as a group that the audience could identify with, and believe in, over the course of the night’s journey into chaos,” she explains. “Grounding the characters in practical wardrobe choices and a muted color palette was an essential visual device, as the group takes us through the adventure of movie.”
For Marcos and Joe, Vastola chose looks that are more put together than their jobs would require. “Marcos’ button-down shirts under his apron show his aspirational side,” she explains. “Joe is also very composed, which we attribute to a sense of pride in his business, and his look also communicates his position as a father figure.”
Laney, a young professional, has office-appropriate style that still expresses her strength and intensity, including a posh pair of trousers with leather chucks. “Those types of dichotomies in her outfits speak to her complexity as a character,” Vastola says.
Vastola and her team dress the senator in designer pieces with clean lines. Vastola shares: “It’s easy to draw a parallel between her stately ensembles and the self-possession and control she exhibits as a government official amidst a chaotic situation.”
Leo wears a modern, slim-fitting suit that is slightly heightened and more stylish than would be expected. “Leo is confidant, intelligent and supremely loyal, and we knew outfitting the character in beautiful suiting would express how far he has come in stature since The Purge: Anarchy,” she explains. “Originally, we had thought about something more tactical for him, but we realized that perhaps the utmost expression of strength would be a silhouette without any fuss or extraneous layers or pockets. As long as he could move easily and stay relatively concealed, Leo’s actions and choices would communicate his intensity and heroism far better than a pair of cargo pants.”
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Universal Pictures presents A Platinum Dunes/Blumhouse/Man in a Tree Production: The Purge: Election Year, starring Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson. The thriller’s casting is by Terri Taylor, CSA, and its music is by Nathan Whitehead. The costume designer is Elisabeth Vastola, and it is edited by Todd E. Miller. The film’s production designer is Sharon Lomofsky, and its director of photography is Jacques Jouffret. The executive producers are Luc Etienne, Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson, and the producers are Jason Blum, p.g.a., Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Sébastien K. Lemercier, p.g.a. The Purge: Election Year is written and directed by James DeMonaco.
ABOUT THE CAST
Having captivated audiences throughout the years, FRANK GRILLO (Leo Barnes) continues his tour de force upon the big and small screen. Going into its third season, Grillo stars as Alvey Kulina in the critically acclaimed DirecTV series Kingdom, and he was recently seen as Captain America’s nemesis in the Marvel feature Captain America: Civil War where he reprised his role of Brock Rumlow, aka Crossbones, from Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Grillo has brought his intellect and talents to all his roles including Collision, Homefront, Zero Dark Thirty, End of Watch, The Grey, Warrior and many more. On television, Grillo has engaged fans on Breakout Kings, The Gates, The Kill Point, Prison Break, The Shield and several more.
As a Primetime Emmy Award-nominee for her starring role on ABC’s phenomenon Lost, ELIZABETH MITCHELL’s (Senator Charlie Roan) ascent is anything but off course. Her role as Juliet offered considerable intrigue to viewers during the course of the series, as well as an opportunity for fans to place where they have seen her before. She re-teamed with Lost creator J.J. Abrams in yet another power-house role of Rachel on his drama vehicle Revolution. She then transitioned into the role of Ingrid, the Snow Queen on ABC’s Once Upon a Time, followed by Netflix’s international drama Crossing Lines, which also starred Donald Sutherland. Next on the horizon is a reunion with her Snow Queen character creators on Freeform’s anticipated sci-fi mystery series Dead of Summer.
Whether as Mrs. Clause to Tim Allen in the last two installments of Walt Disney Pictures’ successful The Santa Clause trilogy, or time traveling alongside the likes of Dennis Quaid in New Line Cinema’s Frequency, Mitchell has lent her ability to an impressive and diverse range of roles. Mitchell most notably appeared as the girlfriend of Angelina Jolie in the Golden Globe Award-winning HBO telefilm Gia. She also starred opposite Dane Cook in the indie drama Answers to Nothing.
Additional credits include Neil LaBute’s Nurse Betty, opposite Renée Zellweger; a 14-episode arc as Dr. Kim Legaspi on John Wells’ ER; Wayne Kramer’s Running Scared, which starred Paul Walker; NBC’s critically acclaimed The Lyon’s Den, opposite Rob Lowe; and in the BBC TV movie Man and Boy, opposite Ioan Gruffudd. Further solidifying her course on the fast track was her role opposite Barry Pepper as Teresa Earnhardt in the ESPN original telefilm 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story and ABC’s drama V, which was based upon the popular 1980s alien invasion mini-series and was the highest rated debut of a series since Lost.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Dallas, Texas, Mitchell transitioned from a performing arts high school to a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. She further honed her craft at the renowned Dallas Theater Center. Her stage credits include productions of As You Like It, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Chicago. She currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Seattle.
Actor and director MYKELTI WILLIAMSON (Joe Dixon) is widely regarded for his extensive film, stage and television work, and for his ability to elevate the danger, humor and humanity of his characters.
Williamson’s film credits include Heat, Con Air, Ali, Lucky Number Slevin, ATL and the beloved role of Bubba Blue in the Oscar®-winning film Forrest Gump. His television credits include The Fugitive, Boomtown, Kidnapped, The Good Wife, 24, CSI: NY, FX’s Justified, the Lifetime movie Twist of Faith and, most recently, Hawaii Five-O and WGN’s Underground.
Williamson has built a reputation in Hollywood as one of the most consistently proven actors in the business, delivering stirring and honest performances that capture audiences. An actor unafraid to step outside the box, as demonstrated when he teamed up with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis for Scott Rudin’s Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences. Fences broke Broadway attendance and box-office records and garnered 10 Tony Award nominations with three wins.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and named by his grandfather for “Spirit” or “Silent Friend” in the language of Blackfeet Indians (not Blackfoot). Williamson began performing on stage at the tender age of nine. Soon thereafter, his family moved to California where his dad was stationed at the March Air Force Base. After graduating from Gene Evans Motion Picture School in San Jose, California, the versatile actor knew he was doing exactly what he was meant to do and hasn’t looked back.
Williamson is the recipient of several awards for acting and writing, which include the Peabody, The Humanitas Prize, the Los Angeles Theater Circle Award and the American Film Institute’s Award of Excellence. A devoted family man and a man of faith, Williamson has his house in order. A prioritized life allows Williamson the freedom and confidence to dig deep beneath the surface of his characters, bringing to light their truth, essence and flaws, all while maintaining dignity and respect for the human spirit.
EDWIN HODGE (Dante Bishop) is best known for his lead role as The Stranger in the $200 million Universal Pictures blockbusters The Purge and The Purge: Anarchy which grossed over $200 million worldwide. He can also be seen alongside James Caan in The Waiting, which premiered to rave reviews at SXSW in 2016. This spring, he was seen in his recurring role on ABC’s critically acclaimed drama Secrets and Lies. Later this summer, he can be seen in History Channel’s first scripted military drama series Six, about the Navy’s most prestigious and lethal squad–Seal Team Six, which also stars Walter Goggins and Barry Sloane.
His other recent credits include Chicago Fire; As Above, So Below; Boston Public; NCIS: Los Angeles; and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane. Hodge also co-starred opposite Chris Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson in the MGM remake of Red Dawn. Additionally, Hodge was cast as one of the leads in the ABC TV movie Clementine, and he appeared as Kai Ashe in NCIS: Red, the planted spinoff pilot of NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles. Among his other roles, he has recurred on the hit TBS comedy Cougar Town and has appeared on many other successful series, including The Mentalist, Heroes, Ghost Whisperer and One Tree Hill.
Hodge currently resides in Los Angeles. In his spare time, he is an avid sportsman with interests specifically in basketball and golf.
The Purge: Election Year is the first of two consecutive films BETTY GABRIEL (Laney Rucker) worked on with Blumhouse Productions and Universal Pictures, with the other being Jordan Peele’s Get Out, which is currently in post-production.
Gabriel is currently filming a recurring role on the new Amazon series Good Girls Revolt. She also recently shot Beyond Skyline, opposite Bojana Novakovic and Frank Grillo, and was seen in Experimenter, a 2015 Sundance Film Festival selection that starred Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder.
Gabriel graduated from The Juilliard School Drama Division in 2014. Her training also includes studying and performing at both the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Victory Gardens in Chicago.
Gabriel was born in Washington D.C. and was raised in both Pittsburgh and Hyattsville, Maryland. She now resides in Los Angeles.
With distinguished roles in a variety of projects, JOSEPH JULIAN (J.J.) SORIA (Marcos) is proving that he possesses the talent, energy and experience to bring memorable characters to life on the small and silver screen. Late last year, Soria shot MGM’s Max and Jon Gunn’s independent film Do You Believe?
Although often cast as the bad boy, Soria has proven to have the chops to conquer many other roles including comedic characters, evidenced by his turn as Cesar Veracruz in the parody film Superfast! Other film credits include Camp X-Ray, alongside Kristen Stewart, and 10 Cent Pistol, a neo-noir heist film, which also starred Joe Mantegna and Jena Malone. In 2008, he was buzzed about as one of the hottest breakout actors tied to his role in director Andrew Fleming’s Hamlet 2, which also starred Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. The film is, and still remains, the third-highest-selling independent film coming out of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2012, Filly Brown (Olmos Productions) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition to rave reviews. Soria played the lead antagonist MC Wyatt opposite Gina Rodriguez (Go For It!). The film hit theaters in April 2013, after a long-awaited delay and much controversy around the loss of the film’s supporting actress, Latin superstar Jenni Rivera. Filly Brown was his fourth film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival; his other films were All She Can (2011), High School (2010) and the aforementioned Hamlet 2 (2008).
Soria’s acting resume includes a plethora of recurring roles and guest spots on many of today’s notable television shows, including TNT’s Animal Kingdom, Grimm, USA Network’s Complications, NBC’s The Night Shift and ABC’s critically acclaimed American Crime. He was a series regular on Lifetime’s Army Wives as Private First Class Hector Cruz.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
JAMES DEMONACO (Written and Directed by) is a writer and director best known for creating the hugely successful The Purge films franchise.
As the writer and director of the previous two films in the franchise, The Purge and The Purge: Anarchy, DeMonaco has become the only writer and director to helm all three features in any given franchise. The first two films earned a combined gross of over $200 million worldwide on a collective budget of $12 million and have been praised for their social commentary and for blending political ideology with horror storytelling.
Having started writing screenplays and directing short films at the young age of 11, DeMonaco made his directorial debut with the independent film Staten Island in 2009. The feature was produced by Luc Besson and Sébastien K. Lemercier, and starred Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio and Seymour Cassel.
On the writing side, DeMonaco has written several features including The Negotiator, which starred Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson, and the remake of Assault on Precinct 13, which starred Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne. He has written and produced several television miniseries including Spike TV’s critically acclaimed nine-hour thriller The Kill Point, which starred John Leguizamo and Frank Grillo.
DeMonaco resides in New York and is an avid fan of the New York Yankees.
Academy Award®-nominated and two-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning producer JASON BLUM, p.g.a. (Produced by) is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, a multimedia production company that has pioneered a new model of studio filmmaking by producing high-quality micro-budget films for wide release.
Blumhouse, which has a first-look deal with Universal Pictures, has produced the highly profitable Paranormal Activity; The Purge, Insidious and Ouija franchises, which have grossed more than $1.7 billion worldwide; and the global hit The Visit from M. Night Shyamalan. Blumhouse’s model began with the original Paranormal Activity, which was made for $15,000 and was released by Paramount Pictures, grossing approximately $200 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film in the history of Hollywood.
Blum, who was nominated for an Academy Award® for producing Whiplash, was named to Vanity Fair’s 2015 New Establishment List and received the Producer of the Year Award at 2016’s CinemaCon.
For television, Blum won Primetime Emmy Awards for producing HBO’s The Normal Heart and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, and he produced the Peabody Award winner How to Dance in Ohio. Blumhouse is currently producing HBO’s Sharp Objects, based on Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel and starring Amy Adams.
Blumhouse has recently expanded by launching , a consumer-facing website for all things scary and BH Tilt, a new label dedicated to movies that will be released across multiple platforms, taking advantage of new distribution strategies.
Blumhouse has also produced a variety of live events including The Blumhouse of Horrors, a haunted-house experience in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
Before Blumhouse, Blum served as co-head of the acquisitions and co-productions department at Miramax Films in New York. At Miramax, he was instrumental in acquiring more than 50 films, including The Others, Smoke Signals, A Walk on the Moon and The House of Yes.
He began his career as the producing director of the Malaparte Theater Company, which was founded by Ethan Hawke.
MICHAEL BAY (Produced by) became a professional director at the young age of 23. By 25, he was recognized as one of the world’s major commercial directors. He went on to win the Cannes International Advertising Festival Silver Lion and the CLIO Award, winning gold for the best commercial in the world for his “got milk?” spot, one of the top ten classic commercials of all time. Several of his commercials are housed in the permanent collection of MoMA in New York.
From there, Bay became a feature-film director who jump-started Will Smith’s film career as an action hero with Bad Boys. Next, he moved into the memorable high-stakes action film The Rock, which starred Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris.
His career, along with his Bay Films production company, continued with blockbuster after blockbuster, including Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, and four films of the Transformers franchise, with a fifth installment coming out next year. With the huge box-office success of these films, Bay is currently the second highest grossing film director in America, after one of his mentors, Steven Spielberg, and the fourth most successful director in the global market. Forbes and Vanity Fair magazines have listed him among the very top earners in Hollywood for the past six years.
Over the past couple of years, Bay has branched beyond the mainstream into smaller, more artistically driven films like the dark comedy Pain & Gain, which starred Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, and more recently 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, the true, untold story chronicling the heroic rescue mission that saved 36 Americans during an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.
In September 2015, he was honored with a career tribute at the 41st Deauville American Film Festival where several of his films were screened and where the Mayor of Deauville, in an enduring tradition of the seaside town, christened a beach cabana with his name.
In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter named Bay and his two partners in Platinum Dunes as Producers of the Year. The company boasts an extremely successful track record with films of all genres, from smaller horror movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), which help break new actors and directors, to tent-pole features like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The second installment of this new franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, was released on June 3, 2016, and grossed $35.3 million in its opening weekend. Overall, Bay’s films, as director and producer, total more than $7.3 billion in global box-office receipts.
Platinum Dunes Television division has produced the popular Starz series Black Sails, which recently aired its third season to rave reviews, and The Last Ship, set to air its third term beginning June 12th on TNT. A small screen version about novelist Tom Clancy’s CIA hero Jack Ryan, starring John Krasinski, is currently in development with partners Paramount Television and Amazon Studios.
Recently, Bay helped to launch yet another company, 451 Media Group, which will focus on developing, producing and worldwide marketing of technology, art and merchandise based on graphic novels as well as new content.
With the money he has made from his business empire, Bay is funding a sizable long-term Animal Conservancy Trust Fund that focuses on the protection of African endangered animals. He also has plans to produce a large scale IMAX documentary on elephant poaching in Africa.
Bay has lectured at Harvard Graduate School of Architecture, Wesleyan University and the University of Southern California, among several others, as well as at various national business leader conferences. In 2011, he was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, Wesleyan University.
He is currently at work on the fifth installment of Transformers, which is slated for release in 2017.
ANDREW FORM and BRAD FULLER (Produced by) founded Platinum Dunes in 2001, along with partner Michael Bay. Established with the intent of creating opportunities for first-time directors, the partners strive to make commercially viable films on modest budgets for a global audience. Since its inception, the company has released 14 films. The partners renewed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures through 2019.
Most recently they produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows which starred Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Laura Linney, Stephen Amell and Tyler Perry, with Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek and Alan Ritchson as the Turtles. The film opened on June 3, 2016, grossing $35.3 million in its opening weekend and is the follow-up sequel to their 2014 hit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which garnered more than $493 million around the globe.
On October 24, 2014, Universal Pictures released the Platinum Dunes produced Ouija, a horror film based on the popular Hasbro board game. Made for $5 million, the film earned over $103 million in box-office receipts. The follow-up to the saga, Ouija: Origin of Evil, starring Henry Thomas, Elizabeth Reaser and Doug Jones, directed by Mike Flanagan, is set for release this coming October.
In 2013, Platinum Dunes produced The Purge for Universal Pictures for a mere $3 million. The innovative sleeper hit surprised the industry when it grossed $34.1 million its opening weekend. Its 2014 sequel, The Purge: Anarchy, grossed $29.8 million its opening weekend and earned $112 million worldwide.
Also for Paramount Pictures, the filmmakers released the low-budget thriller Project Almanac in January 2015. Directed by Dean Israelite, the film introduced a cast of exciting new talent, including Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista and Virginia Gardner as a group of friends who embark on the adventure of their lives when they stumble upon secret designs for an experimental time machine.
In 2014, the Platinum Dunes partners made their first foray into television with two hugely successful shows: Black Sails, starring Toby Stephens, which debuted on Starz on January 25, 2014; and The Last Ship, starring Eric Dane, which first aired on TNT on June 22, 2014, and premiered its third season on June 12, 2016. The film Billion Dollar Wreck, chronicling the adventures of real-life treasure hunter Martin Bayerle, debuted this past February on the History Channel.
The production team has several film and television projects in development, among them is the much-anticipated Jack Ryan, starring John Krasinski, based on the Tom Clancy-created character for Paramount Television.
SÉBASTIEN K. LEMERCIER, p.g.a. (Produced by) is a bilingual producer who, over the last decade, has produced both French- and English-language feature films and has partnered with the French production company Why Not Productions.
Lemercier produced The Purge and The Purge: Anarchy, which were praised for their social commentary and together earned over $200 million worldwide on a combined budget of just over $10 million.
After meeting James DeMonaco in 2002, Lemercier produced his directorial debut Staten Island, which starred Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio and Seymour Cassel. He also developed and executive produced Jean-François Richet’s remake of John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13.
Lemercier also produced the Gregg Araki features Kaboom and White Bird in a Blizzard, which starred Shailene Woodley and Eva Green.
LUC ETIENNE (Executive Producer) has been working in the film industry since 1988, beginning his career as the third assistant director on Columbia Pictures’ To Kill a Priest. Since then, Etienne has worked on more than 35 French and American feature films, serving as first assistant director on Universal Pictures’ The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, Paramount Pictures’ Thor, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: First Class and Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall.
In his 20-plus years in the industry, Etienne has worked with many acclaimed directors, including Paul Greengrass, Frank Marshall, Kenneth Branagh, Doug Liman, Len Wiseman, Matthew Vaughn and Gareth Edwards.
In 2014, Etienne served as the U.S. unit production manager on Warner Bros. Pictures’ global juggernaut Godzilla. He executive produced The Purge: Anarchy and, most recently, he served as an executive producer on The Gift.
JEANETTE VOLTURNO (Executive Producer) is the head of physical production at Blumhouse Productions. In this role, Volturno oversees the physical production of Blumhouse’s films, including the Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious and Ouija franchises, as well as a variety of Blumhouse’s television shows. She co-produced Insidious: Chapter 2 and Insidious: Chapter 3 and executive produced The Purge and The Purge: Anarchy. Volturno brings over 20 years of experience to Blumhouse, having previously run her own company CatchLight Films, where she served as line producer for a wide variety of successful films.
COUPER SAMUELSON (Executive Producer) is the president of feature films at Blumhouse Productions. Blumhouse, which has a first-look deal with Universal Pictures, has produced the highly profitable Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious and Ouija franchises, which have grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide. Blumhouse’s model began with the original Paranormal Activity, which was made for $15,000 and grossed approximately $200 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film in Hollywood history. Blumhouse’s award-winning projects include The Normal Heart and Whiplash, the latter of which Samuelson incubated from a Blumhouse-produced short film to the lowest-budget feature film in Hollywood history to win three Oscars®.
In 2015, he shepherded the critically acclaimed thriller The Gift, which was the directorial debut of Joel Edgerton, and the pathbreaking supernatural thriller Unfriended, which grossed nearly $35 million in the U.S. on a budget of $1 million. Samuelson began his career at Mark Cuban’s 2929, where he co-produced movies including James Gray’s We Own the Night and Two Lovers, both of which were nominated for the Cannes Palme d’Or.
JACQUES JOUFFRET (Director of Photography) has been working in film and television for more than 15 years. His credits include Man on Fire, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Pain & Gain, The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy, The Fifth Estate, Lone Survivor, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Goosebumps, Mr. Church and the upcoming Deepwater Horizon and Patriots Day, among others.
The Purge: Election Year is another collaboration in a long line of feature films for Jouffret with Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.
South African born SHARON LOMOFSKY (Production Designer) gained international recognition for her production design of Before the Rain. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1994 and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards® in 1995. She designed critically acclaimed Manny & Lo; Claire Dolan; Piñero; A Love Song for Bobby Long; The King, which was an Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005; Stephanie Daley, which won the Waldo Salt Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006; El cantante; and the Chris Rock comedy I Think I Love My Wife.
In 2000, Bring it On topped the box-office in the U.S. and abroad. More recent works include James Marsh’s Oscar® and BAFTA Award-winning Man on Wire, Vera Farmiga’s critically acclaimed directorial debut Higher Ground and Jake Schreier’s Robot & Frank.
Lomofsky’s recent film credits include Coco for Lionsgate, and Christopher Smith’s Detour.
TODD E. MILLER (Edited by) got his start with Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer, earning his first editing credit on Armageddon, and he has been cutting blockbuster films ever since. Miller has had the pleasure of working with Simon West on four films, most recently with The Expendables 2 and The Mechanic. In addition to Armageddon, Miller has worked with director Bay several times, including The Purge: Anarchy, Transformers, The Island and The Rock. Recent film credits include Broken Horses, Eden and the upcoming Mechanic: Resurrection.
Miller has ventured outside the action genre on several occasions with thrillers such as Joy Ride and Exorcist: The Beginning, romantic comedies such as Beastly and Under the Tuscan Sun, and a season of television’s E-Ring with Bruckheimer. In between features, Miller has cut a variety of commercials for high-end clients, previously out of the editorial house Mothership and currently out of Beast.
But it’s all about storytelling. Miller shares: “Sometimes it’s punk rock, fast-paced editing, sometimes it’s languid and hypnotic, but it’s always about building a dynamic and taking someone for a ride.”
ELISABETH VASTOLA (Costume Designer) is a frequent collaborator with Jim Mickle, as the costume designer of SundanceTV’s mini-series Hap and Leonard and the feature-films Cold in July, We Are What We Are and Stake Land. Other television credits include MTV’s Eye Candy and the recently filmed virtual reality miniseries Invisible, directed by Doug Liman for Samsung’s Gear VR glasses. Other film credits include 10,000 Saints, Keep the Lights On, The Innkeepers and V/H/S. Vastola has also been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
NATHAN WHITEHEAD (Music by) has written music for a wide range of film, television and video game projects, most recently co-composing the action-comedy Keanu.
Whitehead’s upcoming film credits include Akiva Goldsman’s Stephanie, Killing Hasselhoff, Beyond Skyline and Delirium.
In addition, he has composed music for the Michael Bay-produced television series The Last Ship and South of Hell.
—the purge: election year—
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CAST
Leo Barnes FRANK GRILLO
Senator Charlie Roan ELIZABETH MITCHELL
Joe Dixon MYKELTI WILLIAMSON
Marcos JOSEPH JULIAN SORIA
Laney Rucker BETTY GABRIEL
Earl Danzinger TERRY SERPICO
Dante Bishop EDWIN HODGE
Minister Edwidge Owens KYLE SECOR
Reporter #1 BARRY NOLAN
Dawn LIZA COLON-ZAYAS
Chief Couper ETHAN PHILLIPS
Tall Eric Busmalis ADAM CANTOR
Harmon James CHRISTOPHER JAMES BAKER
Rondo JARED KEMP
Schoolgirl #1 Freakbride/Kimmy BRITTANY MIRABILÉ
Leader Caleb Warrens RAYMOND J. BARRY
Rev with Angel in Command
Center NAEEM DUREN
Angel Munoz NAHEEM GARCIA
Drab Suited Man 1 STEVEN BARKHIMER
Drab Suited Man 2 TOM KEMP
Moderator PORTLAND HELMICH
Uncle Sam ROMAN BLAT
Tommy Roseland DAVID AARON BAKER
Irish Ike Jenkins GEORGE LEE MILES
South African Male ANTOINE COETZEE
Enormous Gang Member DREW COOPER
Mrs. Sabian JOHNNIE MAE
Axe Headed Man TOM PAOLINO
Screaming Woman EMILY PETTA
Masked Man ALEXANDER COOK
Schoolgirl #2 JUANI FELIZ
Gang Member with Dying Friend JAMAL PETERS
Reporter #1 MATT WALTON
Crazy Man (Self-Purger) THOMAS KEE
Man with Bull Horn LONNIE FARMER
Young Charlie Roan CHRISTY COCO
Reporter #3 DARCIE FISHER
Demonic Man ALEXANDER SCHULER
Mercenary #8 HANK AMOS
Dancer #1 LINDSEY PIRES
Dancer #2 EMILY SMITH
Stunt Coordinator HANK AMOS
Stunt Co-Coordinator ADAM HART
Washington, D.C. Stunt
Coordinator RICK KAIN
Leo’s Stunt Doubles BRYCE BIEDERMAN
Roan’s Stunt Double SHAWNNA THIBODEAU
SAMANTHA MACIVOR
Earl’s Stunt Double TORREY VOGEL
Stunt Performers CHRIS GOMBOS
CALIFF GUZMAN
CHAD KNORR
DERRICK SIMMONS
JOSH DICKMANN
JASON ESTRADA
JIM FORD
JAY HIERON
JOHN MASON
KACHINA DECHERT
KIMMY SUZUKI
MARK FICHERA
MITCHELL L. MACK
MALCOLM C. MURRAY
NICOLE CALLENDER
NICK PRINCIPE
NICHOLAS REXFORD
PAUL DRESCHLER-MARTIELL
PETE KLEIN
PAUL E. SHORT
TRAMPAS THOMPSON
DAN PERA
WENDY GUTIERREZ
BECCA GT
CREW
Written and Directed by JAMES DEMONACO
Produced by JASON BLUM, p.g.a.
MICHAEL BAY
ANDREW FORM
BRAD FULLER
SÉBASTIEN K. LEMERCIER, p.g.a.
Executive Producers JEANETTE VOLTURNO
COUPER SAMUELSON
LUC ETIENNE
Director of Photography JACQUES JOUFFRET
Production Designer SHARON LOMOFSKY
Edited by TODD E. MILLER
Costume Designer ELISABETH VASTOLA
Music by NATHAN WHITEHEAD
Co-Producer PHILLIP DAWE
Unit Production Manager LUC ETIENNE
First Assistant Director STEPHEN HAGEN
Second Assistant Director JOHNNY RECHER
First Assistant Director JAYSON MERRILL
Second Assistant Director AARON J. STONE
Production Supervisor DON J. HUG
“A” Camera Op JACQUES JOUFFRET
“A” Camera First Assistant JIMMY JENSEN
“A” Camera Second Assistant M. DEAN EGAN
“B” Camera Operator ALEX MARTIN
“B” Camera First Assistant THOMAS FITZGERALD
“B” Camera Second Assistant MATT HEDGES
Loader TOSHA PALANI
Camera Utility THOMAS BELLOTI
Additional First Assistant NOLAN BALL
D.I.T. Operator KYO MOON
Video Assist JON KOBS
Still Photographer MICHELE K. SHORT
Video Supervisor JOE DOYLE
Phantom Camera Technician SASHA BURDETT
Libra Head Technician PIERSON SILVER
Drone Photography JUDSON BELL,
ELEVATED PERSPECTIVE MEDIA
Drone Pilot CHRIS WALSH
Production Sound Mixer JASON FYRBERG
Boom Operator KELLY DORAN
Sound Utility BRIAN COURCHINE
Production Designer SHARON LOMOFSKY
Art Director DAVID BLANKENSHIP
Set Designer MARTIN FAHRER
Art Department Coordinator JASON MAYOH
Graphic Designer MEGAN BLAKE
Art Department Production
Assistant DANIELLE GLYNN
Set Decorator VANESSA KNOLL
Leadman SHANN WHYNOT-YOUNG
On-Set Dresser SHADYA BALLUG
Buyer MELISSA COOPERMAN
Set Dressers NATHAN KIRK
MIKE POTTER
AMANDA DOBSON
ALAN HAGUE
MATT HARRINGTON
TIM LEWIS
BRIAN MCKENZIE
ALYSON MACINNIS
Property Master HILARY TAILLIE
Assistant Propmaster BOB FLANNERY
Armorer CHRISTOPHER WDOWIN
Picture Car Coordinator BOB ANDERSON
Key Assistant CHRIS LUCIANO
Script Supervisor JENNA DAYTON
Special Effects Coordinator JOHN RUGGIERI
Special Effects Foreman DIANA ROCHE
Special Effects Technicians MELISSA ASCI
THOMAS CARROLL
Chief Lighting Technician JESSE GOLDBERG
Best Boy Electrician JIM MITCHELL
Electricians JACK MCPHEE
BRIAN DWIGGINS
TIM DUNBAR
PHIL NASON
Generator Operator GEOFF DANN
ED LALLI
Basecamp Generator Operator CHRIS VILARDI
Balloon Technician ZACK LAZAR
Rigging Chief Lighting
Technician DAVID CAMBRIA
Rigging Best Boy Electrician LEE AYRTON
Rigging Electrics BOB NADROWSKI
DAVE PROVENZANO
DANIEL HUTCHINSON
Key Grip WOODY BELL
Best Boy Grip EDWIN RUBIO
Additional Best Boy Grip DERECK CONTRADO
Additional Best Boy Grip GEORGIA PANTAZOPOULOS
“A” Dolly Grip JENNIFER EVANS
“B” Dolly Grip ROB KELLY
Grip DYLAN PELOQUIN
Rigging Key Grip DAVID ROMANO
Rigging Best Boy Grip ATHENA CHARBATJI
Rigging Grips TOBIAS HALLER
TIMOTHY CATZ
Assistant Costume Designer SARAH RICHMOND
Key / Costume Supervisor KIMBERLY DURKIN
First Set Costumers MARGARET CODOLA
ROSA COLON
Set Costumer GIANNA SOPRANO
Costumer ALANNA KEENAN
Stitcher JANNA PEDERSON
Costume Assistant NICOLE COOK
Makeup Department Head JOE ROSSI
Personal Makeup Artist for
Elizabeth Mitchell CARLA ANTONINO
Additional Makeup Artist JULIET LOVELAND
Hair Department Head FRANK BARBOSA
Hair Stylist SHAYNA PASSARETTI
Construction Coordinator SCOTT PINA
Construction Foreman PETER WILCOX
Mill Gang Boss MARK DIGIANTOMASSO
Gangboss RICHARD CAMBRIA
Charge Scenic EDWARD REZENDES
Scenic Foreman JOSE TRAN
Stand-by Painter JEREMY PEREIRA
Painters JOHN HAVEN STOREY
KERRI MCGILL
Propmakers TREVOR ELLIOTT
TIM JACKSON
CORY CURTIN
KENNETH FERRO
JIM FAIRHURST
ROBERT VALLEY
SEAN MCDERMOTT
PETER RIPPE
DENNIS GRULLON
JOHN LARSON
Laborer JAMES LAFAZIA
Location Managers MICHAEL BUONANNO
ALISON TAYLOR
Assistant Location Managers IAN LARSON
OLLIE AMERIGIAN
Locations Assistant BRIT MACFARLAND
Location Scout J. PETER GONZALEZ
Locations PA MATT BELTZ
Set Medic ROGER DILLINGHAM
Construction Medic JOHN SANSONE
Production Accountant MICHAEL COLLINS
First Assistant Accountant SERGIO MEDINA
Second Assistant Accountant ELLE DAVIDA
Payroll Accountant SEAN MURPHY
Production Coordinator ROY BOGY
Assistant Production
Office Coordinator TIMOTHY MENDONÇA
Production Secretary JENNIFER DRISCOLL
2nd 2nd Assistant Director CHAD GOYETTE
Additional 2nd Assistant Director SCOOTER PERROTTA
Production Assistants MELISSA “MITZA” BUONANDUCCI
ALESSIA ROSARIA
Key Set Production Assistant NICHOLAS REXFORD
Set Production Assistants MICHAEL BARTHOLET
KYLE IZZO
BEN ZALUSKY
Production Office Interns NICOLE MORRA
JUSTIN “YOUNG JUSTIN” WILLIAMS
Catering by PRANZI CATERING
Key Craft Service STEPHEN BLASI
Assistant Craft Service JOE FANTASIA
Assistant Craft Service KELLY GALLANAR
Teamster Captain JAMES HARKERSS
Teamster Co-Captain THOMAS O’CONNOR
Picture Car Driver MICHAEL PAPA
Drivers MICHAEL DRUAN
SCOTT OGDEN
CHARLES BESSETTE
HAROLD ST PIERRE
RONALD TARTAGLIA, JR.
JOSEPH BAIROS, JR.
WILLIAM PANDOZZI
DAVID FONSECA
ERNEST THIBAULT
LANCE IMOR
STEPHAN ATAMIAN
JEFFREY CHAKOUIAN
KEITH MARVEL
JOHN VINCENT
SCOTT MUNDY
JAVIER LOPEZ
ANTHONY PARRILLO
JOSEPH MALONEY
NICHOLAS RICAMO
BRIAN DIAS
DAVID DONAHUE
JOSE RIVERA
JAMES REBEIRO
JARED SEELEYMAN
ROBERT MURRAY
RONALD HARRISON
STUART MUNDY EUSTACIO JENKINS
JASON MALOOF
JASON PARIILLO
JOHN ALPAIO SR.
CHARLES RYAN
JAMES POGSON
RYAN MUNDY
GEORGE THIBAULT
HAROLD ST. PIERRE III
MARTIN MUNIZ
NATHANIEL MUNIZ
RICHARD HARTLEY
ROBERT D’AMBRA
RUSSELL BAIROS
SANTINO TARTAGLIA
TIMOTHY TAFT
Aerial Director of Photography BRIAN HELLER
Aerial Coordinator/ Pilot AL CERULLO
Casting by TERRI TAYLOR CASTING
Casting Director TERRI TAYLOR, CSA
Casting Associate SARAH DOMEIER, CSA
Casting Assistant ALLY CONOVER
Boston Casting ANGELA PERI
Boston Casting Associate AARON KAHL
Boston Extras Casting SARAH OTTEMAN
JERRY DWYER
Stand Ins GREG SEYMORE
SARAH BURKE
EPK TRAILER PARK, INC.
EPK Producer MICHELE SYLVESTER
EPK Cameraman FRANK ZAMBETTI
Associate Editor DONNA MADRIGAL
Visual Effects Producer JAMISON GOEI
VFX Editor CHRISTIAN T. KELLEY- MADERA
Assistant VFX Editors MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE
MORGAN HELLER
Postproduction Coordinator RICKI REISNER
Score Mixer DANIEL KRESCO
Additional Score Mixer PHIL MCGOWAN
Music Editor DAN EVANS FARKAS
Orchestrator PETER BATEMAN
Additional Arrangements ERIK LUTZ
Score Technical Assistant SETH JOHNSON
Loop Group Coordinator DANN FINK
Avid Editorial Provided by POST FACTORY NY
Sound Facility PARABOLIC
Supervising Sound Editor/
Re-Recording Mixer LEWIS GOLDSTEIN
Supervising Dialogue Editor/
ADR Editor THOMAS RYAN
Dialogue Editor ALLAN ZALESKI
Sound Effects Editor ALEX SOTO
Foley Editor WEN HSUAN TSENG
Foley Artist SHAUN BRENNAN
First Assistant Sound Editor ALFRED DEGRAND
Assistant Sound Editor ANDREW MASTRONARDI
Audio Postproduction Manager CATE MONTANA
Digital Intermediate Provided by COMPANY 3 NEW YORK
CO3 Executive Producer/
Supervising Colorist STEFAN SONNENFELD
Colorist ROB SCIARRATTA
Feature Finishing Producer PHILIPPE MAJDALANI
Digital Conform JOHN DIESSO
Color Assistants BRETT PRICE
GIOVANNI DIGIORGIO
Head of Production NICK MONTON
Account Executive DAVID FELDMAN
Visual Effects by METHOD STUDIOS
Visual Effects Supervisor GONG MYUNG LEE
Executive Producer ANGELA LUPO
Head of Production JENNIFER HARGREAVES
Visual Effects Supervising
Producers JEFF WOLFE
SHAINA HOLMES
DAVID DERWIN
Visual Effects Coordinator MONICA BARRAZA
Compositing Supervisor ROBERT “NICK” DAUPHINAIS
CG Supervisor JOHN KILSHAW
Production TD MATT KUSHNER
Visual Effects Artists OHAD BRACHA
JOSEPH BRIGATI
DAVE CHEN
BRIAN DINOTO
DAVID DRESE
BRIAN DRUCKER
ERIC GELGAND
MATT HACKETT
CHAD HERRADA
GARRETT JOHNSTON
LAUREN KUSHNER
TOM LECKIE
JEEN LEE
RYAN LEONARD
BRIAN MAGARIAN
MARCO MALDERA
DAVID MARTE
TOM MCCULLOUGH
ANDREW MOWER
UROSH OTASHEVICH
MACKENZIE PARKER
VASHO PEKAR
JARED POLLACK
ERIK RASMUSSEN
SARI RODRIG
KEITH STEVENS
WERNER TEN HOEVE
JAMIE TILTSON
VFX Editor PINAR COMEZOGLU
Pipeline TDs ZACH LEWIS
STEPHEN MACKENZIE
Technical Operations Manager DAVID TOEPFER
Visual Effects by PIXOMONDO
VFX Producer PATRICK NEIGHLY
Division VFX Producer: Frankfurt VIKTORIJA OGURECKAJA
Division VFX Producer: Stuttgart NINA GÖLDNER
VFX Supervisor: Los Angeles RANDALL SMITH
VFX Supervisor: Frankfurt PIET HOHL
Coordinator SABRINA HARRISON
Executive Producer JONI JACOBSON
Matchmove Artist NADJA DING
Senior CG Artists IRFAN CELIK
SEBASTIAN LAUER
FIKRET YILDIRIM
OLIVER ZANGENBERG
CG Artists ANTHONY SIEBEN
MAXIMILLIAN WALLRABENSTEIN
Compositors TOBIAS DOMMER
JESPER GYLLSTAD
FALK HOFMANN
FABIAN HOLTZ
JONATHAN NEUKIRCH
TRAVIS NOBLES
MARK SPINDLER
ANDREAS STEINLEIN
VFX Editor TIMUR YESILFILIZ
Pipeline TD JOHANNES PINK
Visual Effects by VFX LEGION
Visual Effects Supervisor JOE HARKINS
JAMES DAVID HATTIN
MATTHEW T. LYNN
Visual Effects Producer CHRISTOPHER SINNOTT
Visual Effects Coordinators BRENTON MURRELL
MATTHEW NOREN
Head of Production NATE SMALLEY
VFX Editor (VFX Legion) HERBERT DWIGHT RAYMOND IV
Lead 3D Artist ROMMEL S. CALDERON
Lighting JIM GACZKOWSKI
CHRISTOPHER STRAUSS
Tracking MARK EVANS
MICHAEL G. JACKSON
MATTHEW MERKOVICH
ALBRECHT STEINMETZ
3D Modeling CLARA COULTER
JONATHAN D. FELDMAN
Animation SEAN KINNEAR
Dynamics ROBERT CHAPIN
DAVID DAVIES
Digital Matte Painting YVONNE MUINDE
Lead Compositor H HADEN HAMMOND
Compositing PHILLIP BROSTE
CYNTHIA BUELL
WENDY CHEUNG
GERALDINE DORAY-NOVAK
NICK GUTH
CHRISTOPHER KLASSEN
MATTHIAS LOWRY
BRADY MOYLAN
MILTON MULLER
RAFAEL PEREZ
MICHAEL PLOTNIKOV
JOHN R. MCCONNELL
KYLE SPIKER
CAITLIN STASUK
ALLAN TORP JENSEN
DYLAN YASTREMSKI
Pipeline Development BRADON RACHAL
Bookkeeping MICHAELA O’BRIEN
Visual Effects by REZ-ILLUSION
Digital Compositors AUGUST COLEMAN
SIMON HARRISON
Visual Effects by FUSEFX
VFX Supervisor TOMMY TRAN
VFX Producers JASON SPRATT
TIM JACOBSEN
Head of Production DAVID ALTENAU
Compositing Supervisor KEVIN YUILLE
2D Artists JASON RICHARDSON
KENNY LIU
ZORAN GLISOVIC
DAVID HOCHSTADTER
DAVID FOGG
CHRIS FLYNN
VFX Editor BROOKE NOSKA
Visual Effects by THE MOLECULE
VFX Supervisor LUKE DITOMMASO
VFX Executive Producer CHRIS HEALER
VFX Executive Producer ANDREW BLY
VFX Producer DAVID MCELFRESH
Bid Producer JAMIE MCINTYRE
Compositing Supervisor MARK FRIEDMAN
VFX Coordinator JOSHUA SACAVAGE
Compositors ADRIENNE DELUCA
MATT DINARDO
KEVIN FISCH MIN WHA JUNG
VICKY PENZES
MATTHEW PERRY
JOHN SEPALLA JESSE SPEER
JUNG UM
JEFF WOZNIAK
Visual Effects by WOLVERINE VFX
VFX Supervisor CHARLES DULIN
VFX Artists JAMIE BAXTER
MARK CAPELLA
DARRELL CLAUNCH
JORDAN HANSEN
JERAD RIOJAS
Dolby Sound Consultant JASON BALES
Preview Engineering NEW BOX SOLUTIONS
Music Clearances by SESSING MUSIC SERVICES
Stock Footage Research and
Clearances SEARCHWORKS
Stock Footage Provided by TAVIS SMILEY SHOW
GETTY IMAGES
UNIVERSAL STOCK FOOTAGE LIBRARY
WE ARE CHANGE
WCBS TV
ARTBEATS
SHUTTERSTOCK
Main Titles Design by FILMOGRAPH
Title Designer AARON BECKER
Titles Executive Producer SETH KLEINBERG
Animator ZACHARY CARNES
Additional Animation ANDREW HILDEBRAND
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
1st Assistant Director DC Shoot JOHNNY RECHER
Production Supervisor KYLE DAVID CROSBY
Director of Photography ANASTAS N. MICHOS, ASC
“A” Camera Op DAVE INSLEY
“A” Camera First Assistant IAN AXILROD
“A” Camera Second Assistant MIKE PANCZENKO
“B” Camera First Assistant CHRIS HORNE
“B” Camera Second Assistant STU STEIN
Loader SUNIL DEVADANA
D.I.T. Operator JOHN VALLON
Video Assist ALEX APPLEFELD
Production Sound Mixer LORENZO MILLAN
Boom Operator STEVE SAADA
Set Decorator SUSAN KESSEL
Leadman JASON IVEY
On-Set Dresser E.PARKER WEBB
Set dressers ELIZABETH MCPHERSON
JASON WICKSELL
BOB SPORE
Buyer REBECCA WEIDNER
P.A. ROSEMARY LISS
Property Master/Armorer CHRISTOPHER WDOWIN
Assistant Propmaster JACK DORSEY
Picture Car Coordinator THOM LOMBARDI
Key Assistant MONICA MOORE
Script Supervisor JANE L. BURKA
Special Effects Coordinator WILLIAM CATANIA
Special Effects Foreman HANK ATTERBURY
Special Effects Technicians DAVE SCHEPER
HOLLY HORST
TOM TURNBOL
MANON WILKES
Chief Lighting Technician BOB WAYBRIGHT
Best Boy Electrician TOMO SASAKI
Electricians GEORGE GREEN
SHEPERD LASHLEY
MIKE MATNEY
ANDREW CORBIN
ALLEN HERVY
MIKE WILSON
Generator Operator MICHAEL MACKENZIE
Key Grip BRIAN MATTES
Best Boy Grip DAN AUGUST
“A” Dolly Grip JOE KURTZ
Grips MARK SMOOT
CARL HAMILTON
TIM CHAPIN
ASHLEY BENSEL
Key/Costume Supervisor KIMBERLY DURKIN
First Set Costumers KIM CHEWNING
Set Costumer MICHAEL SIMON
Makeup Department Head DEBI YOUNG
Makeup Artist LORRAINE BOUSHELL
Hair Department Head JANICE KINIGOPOULOS
Hair Stylist LYDIA BENAIM
Location Managers CHAN CLAGGETT
Assistant Location Managers CHRIS GEAR
Location P.A. NICK SIDOR
Set Medic KEVIN DUGARD
Production Accountant JUSTIN CARVILLE
Payroll Accountant PAULA H. ROSE
Production Coordinator ANN S. CHRISTMAN
Assistant Production Office
Coordinator TIA GOODSON
2nd Assistant Director DOUG JONES
2nd 2nd Assistant Director BILL HARDY
Production Assistants NIKOLAI BIANCHERI
STEPHEN BARRETT
CHASE SCOTT
BRAD WILLIAMS
Key Set Production Assistant TREVOR SCHLIEFER
Set Production Assistants IAN COBLYN
DIA GRIFFTHS
Catering by VERSATILE FOODS
Key Craft Service SCOTT RUSSELL
Assistant Craft Service ERIN DAVIS
Teamster Captain DANIELLE FREDERICKSON
Teamster Coordinator JIMMY WATSON
Drivers ANTHONY CONARD
JOHN BROWN
JIM JACKSON
DANNY THOMAS
GEORGE YOUNG
RAYMOND CONNER
RAY OLIVER
WADE SATTERFIELD
ERIC JOHNSON
DARYL COLLINS
BOBBY GALLIHER
RONALD GODDARD
VICTORIA BENNETT
LEOLA SMITH
MALCOM TAYLOR
Washington, D.C. Extras
Casting by CENTRAL CASTING DAGMAR WITTMER
Washington, D.C. Extras
Casting Associate DANIEL ULF
FOR BLUMHOUSE
Head of Business Affairs ZAC LOCKE
Head of Production Finance AARON KHRISTEUS
Assistants to Mr. Blum OLIVIA MASCHERONI
CAITLYN WILLIAMS
Creative Coordinator/Assistant
to Mr. Samuelson RAE ROBERTS
Coordinator of Physical
Production COURTNEY SALMON
Manager, Production Accounting CODY HEFFELFINGER
“20th Century Boy”
Written by Marc Bolan
Performed by T. Rex
Courtesy of Spirit Music Group
“Title Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof Off)”
Written by Jerome Brailey, George Clinton Jr. and William Collins
Performed by The Original Players
Courtesy of sync2picture
By arrangement with Fine Gold Music
“Green Paper Burns and Burns”
Written by Joey Sykes and Justin Frankee Waddell
Performed by Frankie Razor
Courtesy of d2 Music
“Never Know Why”
Written by Daniel Albert Methric, Anthony Samuel DeNardo and Matthew Thomas Rost
Performed by The Muggs
Courtesy of North Star Media LLC
“Party In The U.S.A.”
Written by Lukasz Gottwald, Jessica Cornish and Claude Kelly
Performed by Alana D
Courtesy of The Boom Clack
“I’m Afraid Of Americans”
Written by David Bowie and Brian Eno
Performed by David Bowie
Courtesy of RZO Music
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH DENTSU INC./FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK, INC.
Production Legal Counsel BRADY SMOOT
REDER & FEIG, LLP
Production Insurance
Provided by GALLAGHER ENTERTAINMENT INSURANCE SERVICES
Payroll Services by EASE ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES
EMPIRE FILMS, INC.
Camera Equipment Provided by PANAVISION
Electric Equipment Provided by RED SKY STUDIOS
Grip Equipment Provided by BLACK FLAG GRIPS
Picture Cars Provided by ANDERSON AUTOMOTIVE
Helicopter Provided by HOVER-VIEWS UNLIMITED
End Crawl by MATTEO SARADINI
JACOB GREEN
Product Placement by CORBIS ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS
HERO ENTERTAINMENT MARKETING INC.
CREATIVE ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES INC.
PREMIERE ENTERTAINMENT
Transportation Equipment
Provided by HADDAD’S INC, THE “CAN-DO” PEOPLE
ABOVE THE LINE PRODUCTION RENTALS
MOVIE WAGONS INC
ROAD RUNNER CAMERA CARS INC.
The filmmakers wish to extend their personal thanks to the following for their contributions to the making of this movie:
Dr. Selina Cali
Cali DeMonaco
Mary and James DeMonaco
Mary Kim DeMonaco Pocchia
James Pocchia
James Michael Pocchia
Deanna and John Quinlan
Dr. Cassandra Quinlan
Bob and Elise Cali
Andrea Sabian
Charles Ferraro
David Kramer
Robert Cali
Julie Peyr-Lemercier
Elias Lemercier
Joachim Lemercier
National Building Museum
DGA
With grateful acknowledgement to the State of Rhode Island and
Steven Feinberg, the Rhode Island Film & Television Office
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City of Providence, RI
City of Woonsocket, RI
City of Warwick, RI
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Special Thanks to the Screen Actors Guild
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© 2016 Universal Studios.
All Rights Reserved.
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS is the author of this motion picture for purposes of the Berne Convention and all national laws giving effect thereto.
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries. Unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution
Credits as of June 9, 2016.
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