Butcher's Crossing

[Hunter Rider]

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Penhall Writing Mendes Film Butcher's Crossing

Source:The Hollywood Reporter
December 9, 2009


Joe Penhall (The Road) will write the screenplay for the Sam Mendes-directed Butcher's Crossing, an adaptation of John Williams' 1960 Western novel at Focus Features.

Set during the 1870s, the adventure story centers on a man who drops out of Harvard and heads west to the small Kansas town of the title. There, he joins the search for a great buffalo herd.

Mendes and his Neal Street Prods. partners Pippa Harris and Caro Newling are producing with Polsky Films' Gabe and Alan Polsky.

I love a good western, should be interesting to see how Mendes handles the genre.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Yeah, westerns rock. But Mendes wouldn't be the first bland director to flush good potential through the toilet (Mangold, 3:10 to Yuma). Every western has potential to be good, I'm wondering who will be in this.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Disagreed but I am interested to see who he casts.

 

[Max J Power]

Mendes seems like an odd choice, but we'll see how it turns out.

I thought 3:10 to Yuma was good, although I attribute that to the characters and performances much more than direction.

And I have to admit I clicked on this topic because it has a similar name to Miller's Crossing.

 

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First Look: Nicolas Cage In His Western ‘Butcher’s Crossing’ – Deadline

 

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‘Butcher’s Crossing’: Fred Hechinger To Star Opposite Nicolas Cage In Western – Deadline

 

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‘Butcher’s Crossing’ Adds Jeremy Bobb, Xander Berkeley, Rachel Keller, Paul Raci – Deadline

 

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BUTCHER'S CROSSING - Official Trailer

Butcher’s Crossing is coming to the big screen.See Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage in #ButchersCrossingMovie, coming to select movie theaters on October 20...

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[CaptainWagner]

BUTCHER'S CROSSING - Official Trailer

Butcher’s Crossing is coming to the big screen.See Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage in #ButchersCrossingMovie, coming to select movie theaters on October 20...

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This looks pretty good! I'm nervous about them managing to pull off the adaptation - Butcher's Crossing is one of the greatest revisionist Westerns, but it's very dense - but Cage and Raci are perfectly cast and the visuals look gorgeous. Hope this turns out to be a good time!

 

[Kane52630]

Looks really good.

 

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Butcher’s Crossing Clip Transforms Nicolas Cage Into an Intense, Bald Buffalo Hunter

Nicolas Cage stars as an intense, bald buffalo hunter in a new clip from Butcher's Crossing, which releases in October 2023.

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