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DCU Star’s New Body-Hacking Sci-Fi Thriller Officially Sets Digital Release Date With First Trailer [Exclusive]

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Frank Grillo and Tyrese Gibson face off with an evil corporation in a bleak future in the new cyberpunk thriller Kill Code. In the world of the film, the human body is just hardware that can be programmed to do the bidding of the rich and powerful, but even in this dark dystopia, there are those who fight back. Collider is proud to exclusively present the trailer for Kill Code, which will be released digitally on June 24.

In the dystopian future of Kill Code, America has been ravaged by the Second Civil War, and crime is a deadly pandemic; the rainy, neon-lit streets are dangerous to all who walk them. Alpire Industries CEO and scientist Eion Prescott (a silver-tressed Harvey Keitel) has the cure: the ONYX Program. AI-powered watches will be strapped to known criminals, which will inject them with nanobots loaded with a deadly computer virus: the kill code. It will force them to battle other criminals to the death, with the battered survivors earning redemption…and their lives. But Alpire won’t be satisfied until they’ve eliminated free will entirely. One cyber-enhanced Alpire operative (newcomer Franzi Schissler) has discovered the truth, and she’s hooked up with a ragtag resistance movement that might just win humanity’s freedom back.











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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz
Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?
The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
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Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.

💊The Matrix

🔥Mad Max

🌧️Blade Runner

🏜️Dune

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🚀Star Wars

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01

You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do?
The first instinct is often the truest one.





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02

In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely?
What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.





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03

What kind of threat keeps you up at night?
Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.





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04

How do you deal with authority you don’t trust?
Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.





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05

Which environment could you actually endure long-term?
Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.





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06

Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart?
The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.





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07

Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all?
Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.





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08

What would actually make survival worth it?
Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.





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Your Fate Has Been Calculated
You’d Survive In…

Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.

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The Resistance, Zion

The Matrix

You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.

  • You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
  • You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
  • You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
  • The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.

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The Wasteland

Mad Max

The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.

  • You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
  • You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
  • You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
  • In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.

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Los Angeles, 2049

Blade Runner

You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

  • You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
  • In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
  • You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
  • In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.

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Arrakis

Dune

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

  • Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
  • You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
  • Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
  • In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.

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A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Star Wars

The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

  • You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
  • You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
  • You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
  • In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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Who Are the Stars of ‘Kill Code’?

Grillo is an action veteran, with roles in both the MCU, as Hydra operative Brock Rumlow, alias Crossbones, and the new DCU, as government agent Rick Flag Sr.; he will appear as the latter in the upcoming Man of Tomorrow. He also currently appears alongside Sylvester Stallone in the Paramount+ crime drama Tulsa King. Rapper and actor Tyrese Gibson has starred in two separate high-octane action franchises, as a regular in both the live-action Transformers films and as Roman Pearce in the Fast and Furious movies. He recently starred in the action horror comedy Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. Oscar-nominated actor Harvey Keitel’s appearances in the films of Martin Scorsese, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and The Irishman, have established him as one of his generation’s foremost “tough guy” actors. He recently appeared in the actioner Hellfire alongside Stephen Lang.

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Kill Code is written and directed by Justin Price (I Heart Robots), who also stars in the film. Formerly titled Hard Matter, it is distributed by Quiver Releasing; it was filmed on location in Mississippi. Kill Code will be released digitally on June 24. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

Tyrese Gibson, Franzi Schissler, Frank Grillo, and Harvey Keitel in the key art for Kill Code.
Image via Vertical

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