Dead Man’s Wire: Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes. On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a “dead man’s wire” from the trigger to Tony’s own neck.