Killing Hasselhoff | |
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Directed by | Darren Grant |
Written by | Peter Hoare |
Produced by | Ashok Amritraj Michele Berk Abhishek Devalla David Hasselhoff Patrick Hughes Michael J. Luisi Warren Zide |
Starring | Ken Jeong David Hasselhoff Jim Jeffries Colton Dunn Dan Bakkedahl Ron Funches Jennifer Ikeda Rhys Darby |
Cinematography | Joseph White |
Edited by | Ryan Folsey |
Music by | Nathan Whitehead |
Production companies | WWE Studios Lotus Pictures Hyde Park Entertainment Intellectual Artists Management Primary Wave Entertainment |
Distributed by | Image Nation |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Killing Hasselhoff is a 2017 American action comedy film directed by Darren Grant, and starring Ken Jeong and David Hasselhoff. The film was released on DVD and digital platforms on August 29, 2017. [1]
A man, who is down on his luck, attempts to win a celebrity death pool by trying to kill David Hasselhoff. The prize is half a million dollars, which he can use to pay off a loan shark and get his life back on track. [2]
Writer Peter Hoare was unhappy with the way the script was rewritten during production. He told Script Magazine, “Little by little, what I saw was the movie changed into something that was so different than the movie I originally wrote, and that David read, so many years before. Long story short, it came out on DVD, but man, it could have been really, really funny.” [3]
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