Eye in the Sky

Eye in the Sky is a 2015 British thriller film starring Helen MirrenAaron PaulAlan Rickman, and Barkhad Abdi. The film, directed by Gavin Hood and based on a screenplay by Guy Hibbert, is about military personnel facing legal, ethical, and political dilemmas presented by modern drone warfare against those using terrorist tactics, and civilians who are endangered by it. It was filmed inSouth Africa in late 2014 with the working title of The Kill Chain. The film is the first production of Ged Doherty and Colin Firth's production company Raindog Films. Firth was originally scheduled to play British Foreign Secretary James Willett.

The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2015. Bleecker Street distributed the film in theaters in the United States with a limited release on 11 March 2016 and then a wide release on April 1. It is one of the two last feature films starring Rickman, who died of pancreatic cancer in January 2016; the other is Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).