They Will Kill You Director Reveals The Movie's Best Easter Egg That Will Change The Way You Watch It [exclusive]

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Director Kirill Sokolov conscionable made a sanction for himself. While he's been moving for a while, nan filmmaker conscionable made nan bloody and bonkers "They Will Kill You." 2025 had a batch of awesome action movies, and I cognize there's still an atrocious batch of 2026 left, but this is astir apt going to beryllium among nan year's champion of nan genre. And 1 of nan movie's biggest Easter eggs whitethorn connection up a very bully logic for a rewatch.

The movie centers connected a hopeless female named Asia (Zazie Beetz) who answers an advertisement for a live-in housekeeper astatine a luxurious New York City high-rise flat building. Upon arrival, she uncovers nan building's sinister history involving a Satanic cult lurking successful nan shadows.

Ahead of nan merchandise of "They Will Kill You," I had nan chance to speak pinch Sokolov, who besides directed one of nan champion world action movies of nan 2010s, "Why Don't You Just Die!" He explained that crafting nan caller film's hotel, The Virgil, was a operation of real-world locations and very peculiar group design. Here's what he had to opportunity astir it:

"The full accumulation was successful Cape Town. So we recovered streets, we recovered immoderate places, but besides we had to adhd connected top. Basically we built nan first level that we stitched to a existent building, and we built our ain doors and interior of [The] Virgil. Then, wrong — because nan movie is truthful action-heavy and this action includes rainfall and h2o that floods everything, occurrence effects, snow, and each of this, and besides because nan camera was truthful progressive — we needed to person nan sets almost for illustration LEGO wherever we could conscionable region 1 wall, unfastened nan hole, [and] bring nan camera present from nan ceiling."

That attack ties straight into nan aforementioned Easter egg.

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"We decided, okay, we'll conscionable build everything," Kirill Sokolov continued. "We were reasoning astir really to build it, really to make it breathtaking for nan assemblage to enactment wrong of nan 1 building for 90 minutes. So that's wherever this very circumstantial and clear progression of really nan situation changes pinch nan character's travel [came from]."

That's admittedly a batch of preamble, but there's it's important to understand that The Virgil is arsenic overmuch of a characteristic successful "They Will Kill You" arsenic The Continental is successful nan world of "John Wick." Speaking further astir nan Satanic edifice wherever nan bulk of nan movie's carnage takes place, Sokolov revealed that The Virgil is thing of a metaphor for Dante's "Inferno." As he explained:

"It benignant of represents Dante's 'Inferno,' pinch each level for illustration a caller circle of Hell and they spell up, but really they spell down consecutive successful nan bosom of Hell. If you rewatch nan movie pinch this idea, you really admit a batch of for illustration symbols and elements and portions that springiness you a mini clue."

Published successful 1321, "Inferno" is nan first portion of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" series. Very basically, it's a travel done 9 chopped circles of Hell. ("Evil Dead" head Fede Alvarez was going to make a "Dante's Inferno" movie astatine 1 point, but that task ne'er came to pass.) The symbols and various imagery that correspond nan chopped circles of Hell mightiness beryllium easy for audiences to miss nan first clip around, since there's a lot going connected successful "They Will Kill You," but this knowledge could thief springiness you an added appreciation for nan movie and will undoubtedly colour consequent viewings.

"They Will Kill You" hits theaters connected March 27, 2026.