1492 Pictures/Ocean Blue Entertainment Presents an XYZ Films Production a Umedia Production in association with uFund Man of Action Parallel Pictures I KILL GIANTS Directed By ANDERS WALTER Starring MADISON WOLFE, IMOGEN POOTS, ZOE SALDANA, SYDNEY WADE Produced by CHRIS COLUMBUS, MICHAEL BARNATHAN, KIM MAGNUSSON, ADRIAN POLITOWSKI, NICK SPICER, KYLE FRANKE Running Time: 104 minutes TIFF SALES CONTACT: XYZ Films
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[email protected] I KILL GIANTS SHORT SYNOPSIS I Kill Giants tells the story of Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe), a teenage girl who chooses to escape the realities of school and a drab family life by retreating into her magical world of Titans and Giants. With the help of her new friend Sophia (Sydney Wade) and her school therapist (Zoe Saldana), Barbara will learn to battle her Giants and face her fears – tackling the mean bullies at school, her sister (Imogen Poots) and her difficult home life and eventually her biggest dread of the unknown. I Kill Giants, an adaptation of Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura's Man of Action/Image Comics internationally acclaimed graphic novel is directed by Academy Award-winning director Anders Walter. LONG SYNOPSIS Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe) kills giants; she devotes every moment of time she can in researching all the variations of giants, learning how to kill them, laying traps and, when a giant strikes her town, killing it. BARBARA resides with her gaming obsessed teenage brother DAVE and her workaholic sister KAREN (Imogen Poots); their life appears somewhat ramshackle; Karen seems to be barely holding down a job, interspersing her disastrous attempts at cooking with frantic phone calls to her boss, desperately fighting to keep her position.