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Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–2021). For the original series of Deadwood, McShane won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer of the film, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. His film roles include Harry Brown in The Wild and the Willing (1962), Charlie Cartwright in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Wolfe Lissner in Villain (1971), Teddy Bass in Sexy Beast (2000), Frank Powell in Hot Rod (2007), Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), and Winston Scott in the John Wick franchise (2014–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McShane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Substitute teacher and action movie geek Matthew Kitts (Ryan Reynolds) dreams of being the hero for just one time in his life and having his own John McClane type moment. His prayers are answered when he is called in to be the substitute teacher at a local high school and coincidentally that same day, the school is overrun and taken hostage by a former CIA Operative turned international terrorist, Neil Thorburn (Ian McShane) who is being trialed for his number of horrible crimes against humanity. Thorburn wants all charges dropped and to have full immunity from his crimes or else he will execute the hostages. Matthew must know channel his inner Bruce Willis and singlehandedly stop Neil from executing any students or teachers.
