Arcadia Motion Pitures Interested in New Butch Cassidy Film! Developing Blackthorn
Ibon Cormenzana’s Arcadia Motion Pictures is going to produce director Mateo Gil’s Blackthorn. The film is “a reprise of the Butch Cassidy legend.” It takes place in 1910 and will star Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea and Eduardo Noriega.
Shepard is going to play Butch Cassidy 15 years after he was thought to have been gunned down by the Bolivian police. He is now planning to come back to the U.S. and retire. Noriega will play a free wheeling cowboy who loses Cassidy’s life savings. This pushes Cassidy into a final job which is a mine heist. Rea is going to be a railroad employee who is hunting Cassidy.
I loved Redford and Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but this movie seems sort of weak and uninteresting but with Westerns becoming more popular now and films like True Grit getting adapted again, a return to the Butch Cassidy story isn’t a bad business move.
