When a devastating illness threatens to end Evan Lake's career in the C.I.A., he goes rogue to hunt down a terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.When a devastating illness threatens to end Evan Lake's career in the C.I.A., he goes rogue to hunt down a terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.When a devastating illness threatens to end Evan Lake's career in the C.I.A., he goes rogue to hunt down a terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.
Tomiwa Edun
- Mbui
- (as Adetomiwa Edun)
George Remes
- Jim
- (as Remes George)
Cosmin Dominte
- Policeman 1
- (as Dominte Cosmin)
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- TriviaDying of the Light (2014) had a $5 million budget of which $1 million was Nicolas Cage's salary. The shooting location was mostly Romania with some additional scenes shot in the USA and Australia (doubling for Kenya). The film's independent financier was David Grovic, a Bahamanian businessman whose few prior film credits include the critical failure The Bag Man (2014), which Grovic financed, directed, co-wrote and acted in.
- GoofsWhen the private jet lands in Mombasa, the Customs official stamps Evan's passport with JKIA. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is in Nairobi.
- Alternate versionsDirector/screenwriter Paul Schrader had the film taken away from him in post-production. In 2017, he released an alternate cut that he title Dark that ran 75 minutes. Speaking of the newly created version online, Schrader said, "[The movie] was filmed in 2013 and released in 2014 under the title "Dying of the Light". The film was taken from me after the first director's cut, re-edited, scored and mixed without my input. I offered to revisit the film, cut and mix a new version at my own expense but was denied permission by the producers. This cut was created using work print DVDs. I had no access to the original hi-res footage and unmixed sound. I used those limitations to my advantage when creating this new film. I was working toward a more aggressive editing style when "Dying of the Light" was taken away from me. "Dark" represents the direction I was hoping to go."
- ConnectionsEdited into Dark (2017)
- SoundtracksStupid Cupid
Written by Frederik Wiedmann and Esther Canata
Performed by Esther Canata
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Like most Nicolas Cage flicks, the movie lies somewhere on the boarder line of very good and very bad. This one is leaning on the broader of very very bad.
As much as I love a Nicolas Cage movie, one has to always question if I really want to see Nicolas cage in a Nicolas Cage movie. This movie about a aged CIA agent who gets to go after his supposedly dead arch enemy before he retires. Although, unlike most action movies this guy gets to live a pretty awesome two days before retirement scenario, but it may have been a better movie if we did not have to rely so much on the Nick Cage school of bad acting.
In all fairness, it was not Cage's fault that the story and the film making were very dull, and uninteresting. Just his fault that he did the film for a paycheck and seem to pretty much be phoning it in, along with Anton Yelchin you was using the same phone.
Yeah, see something else of stay home.
As much as I love a Nicolas Cage movie, one has to always question if I really want to see Nicolas cage in a Nicolas Cage movie. This movie about a aged CIA agent who gets to go after his supposedly dead arch enemy before he retires. Although, unlike most action movies this guy gets to live a pretty awesome two days before retirement scenario, but it may have been a better movie if we did not have to rely so much on the Nick Cage school of bad acting.
In all fairness, it was not Cage's fault that the story and the film making were very dull, and uninteresting. Just his fault that he did the film for a paycheck and seem to pretty much be phoning it in, along with Anton Yelchin you was using the same phone.
Yeah, see something else of stay home.
- bbickley13-921-58664
- Dec 8, 2014
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- In the Dying Light
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- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $697,847
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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