Nearly five decades after one of America’s most shocking hostage crises, the story of Anthony “Tony” Kiritsis is once again drawing attention through Dead Man’s Wire. Directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Bill Skarsgård and Al Pacino. The crime thriller revisits the real-life 1977 Indianapolis standoff that lasted for more than 60 hours. Bill Skarsgård stars as Tony Kiritsis in Dead Man’s Wire, which arrives on Netflix on May 28. (IMDb) The film follows the events involving Anthony “Tony” Kiritsis, a frustrated real estate developer who kidnapped mortgage executive Richard Hall using a shotgun mechanism later referred to as a “dead man’s wire.” Here are five things to know about the true story behind the infamous case. 1. Tony Kiritsis believed he was financially ruined Kiritsis was a real estate developer from Indianapolis who had borrowed money from Meridian Mortgage Company to build a shopping center. However, the project collapsed, and he became convinced that mortgage executives were deliberately sabotaging his business plans and attempting to seize control of his property. According to reports, …