Claim: Dead Man Down features Colin Farrell in a leading role.

Dead Man Down is an 2013 American neo-noir crime thriller film written by J.H. Wyman and directed by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev . The film stars Colin Farrell , Noomi Rapace , Dominic Cooper , and Terrence Howard , and was released on March 8 , 2013 . Dead Man Down was Oplev 's first film since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -LRB- 2009 -RRB- , also starring Rapace and scored by Jacob Groth .