Jane Got a Gun (2015) on Netflix
When her husband Bill "Ham" Hammond comes home shot and says the Bishop Boys are coming for him, Jane Hammond turns to Dan Frost, a neighbor and her former fiancé.
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Jane Hammond lives in an isolated house with her husband, Bill "Ham" Hammond, and their five-year-old daughter, Katie. Ham comes home one day with several serious bullet wounds, tells Jane that the Bishop Boys, the outlaw gang he once rode with, are coming for him, and is left helpless by his injuries. Jane takes Katie to safety with a woman she trusts, then rides to Dan Frost, a former fiancé who lives nearby, and asks for his help protecting her family from the gang. Dan, who lives in a squalid house and has not seen Jane in years, refuses. Jane heads into town for guns and ammunition.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jane Got a Gun (2015)
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- The film was released in North America on January 29, 2016 with a projected opening weekend around $1 million from 1,210 theaters, but grossed only $865,572, a per theater average of $691 and the worst wide release opening for The Weinstein Company.
- Fassbender left the film due to scheduling conflicts with X-Men: Days of Future Past, so Ramsay recast Edgerton in the vacated role of Dan Frost and cast Jude Law in the role of John Bishop.
- On March 19, 2013 it was announced that Ramsay had left the production, and Gavin O'Connor was announced as her replacement the next day; the same day, Law left the film too, for the reason that he had signed on to work with Ramsay.
- Cooper withdrew on May 1, 2013, revealing that he was leaving because of scheduling conflicts with American Hustle, and on May 6 Ewan McGregor was announced to take over the role of John Bishop from him.
- In July 2015 Relativity Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the film's producers barely managed to take back the rights to the film prior to the filing.
- Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that this is a film whose production history may ultimately prove more memorable than what has been produced: "In Jane Got a Gun, the real bullets were the ones fired behind the camera."
- Duffield's script appeared on the 2011 edition of the Black List, the annual survey of the most popular unproduced screenplays by development executives.
