First ASHBY Trailer Check out the first ASHBY trailer! The film, written and directed by Tony McNamara (The Rage in Placid Lake), stars Nat Wolff, Mickey Rourke, Emma Roberts, Sarah Silverman, and Kevin Dunn. ASHBY will be released in theaters on September 25. ASHBY is a coming of age/approaching death comedy drama. A seventeen-year-old kid (Ed) trying to understand who he wants to be in the world, befriends a terminally ill ex-CIA contract killer (Ashby) who is trying to make peace with his life and God before he goes. ‘Making peace’ might just entail killing three old bosses who have tricked him into breaching his strange moral code.