Thread: All Things: Westerns

I know this could just as easily have been put in the Action thread, but... **** it.

‘Blackthorn’ Trailer: Sam Shepard Continues the Story of Butch Cassidy

It’s been said (but unsubstantiated) that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed in a standoff with the Bolivian military in 1908. In BLACKTHORN, Cassidy (Shepard) survived, and is quietly living out his years under the name James Blackthorn in a secluded Bolivian village. Tired of his long exile from the US and hoping to see his family again before he dies, Cassidy sets out on the long journey home. But when an unexpected encounter with an ambitious young criminal (Eduardo Noriega) derails his plans, he is thrust into one last adventure, the likes of which he hasn’t experienced since his glory days with the Sundance Kid.

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from the Ry Cooder soundtrack to Walter Hill chanelling Peckinpah this is one of the great underrated contemporary westerns. Recently converted to blu-ray, if you have not seen this movie I cannot pimp it highly enough.

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It is well worth the view at your local theater. Horse owner or no, the man knows his ****, and taught me.

what? no one is commenting on the latest greatest western, Cowboys v Aliens?

I guess the day of the cowboy is truly dead.

There was a thread about it back when it was released. Consensus was not very positive on it.

Originally Posted by adgy-san

There was a thread about it back when it was released. Consensus was not very positive on it.

but, but, but, I thought this was the all things western thread. WTF?

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John Carpenter Wants Amy Adams To Star In His “Gothic Western” (In His Dreams) > The Playlist

While speaking at a Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky way back in July, Carpenter did a Q&A with Fangoria Magazine. Slavishly timely, the magazine has just now uploaded the footage to their site (via Bleeding Cool), and with it details of this western have emerged (somewhat).

“I got into this business to make Westerns, and I got tyepcast as a horror director after ‘Halloween,’” the ornery filmmaker explained. “My dream was to have a career in directing movies so I went wherever they wanted me to go… I’m right now working on a little gothic Western, we’ll see if we can get it set up. It’s hard to sell Westerns these days, meaning it’s hard to raise money because they’re not real commercial.” Somewhere, Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinksi are nodding in agreement.

He also clarified that it wouldn’t be a horror-western, either. “They tried it in the old days, they tried ‘Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’ and ‘Billy the Kid Meets Dracula’… a Western should be a Western.”

The project is obviously a long way off, but that didn’t stop Carpenter from speculation on who he’d enjoy working with. “Amy Adams…she’s an unbelievable actress, what a talent,” he said, while accidentally cluing us into the fact that he’s a secret “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” fan. “I’d love to work with her,” he concluded.

More info at the link.