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Paul Kersey is a trauma surgeon in Chicago. He lives with his family: his wife Lucy and daughter Jordan. One evening Paul, Lucy, Jordan, and his brother Frank are at a restaurant. Paul is called away to the hospital, and Lucy and Jordan go back to the house. Three armed men break in. Lucy is shot and later dies, while Jordan is hurt in the head and falls into a coma. Paul grows frustrated because the police make little progress. He considers buying a firearm. When a wounded gang member arrives at the hospital and a gun drops to the floor, Paul quietly keeps it and practices firing. He then uses the weapon to stop a carjacking, hurting his left hand in the process. Footage of the carjacking spreads online and earns him the name Grim Reaper.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Death Wish (2018)
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- Sylvester Stallone planned to direct and star in a Death Wish remake as early as 2006, with his version making the Charles Bronson character a highly successful cop rather than an architect; he left over creative differences.
- Twenty actors were considered for Paul Kersey before Willis was cast, among them Russell Crowe, Matt Damon, Will Smith, Brad Pitt, Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- A 2012 version of the remake would have been written and directed by Joe Carnahan and starred Liam Neeson and Frank Grillo, but Carnahan left in 2013 over creative differences, and his replacement Gerardo Naranjo wanted Benicio Del Toro in the lead.
- Directors Keshales and Papushado quit the project after MGM declined to let them rewrite Joe Carnahan's original script, which Willis had approved; Eli Roth signed on to direct in June, with Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski rewriting the script.
