Dead for a Dollar (2022, W/D: Walter Hill) S: Waltz, Dafoe, Brosnahan
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Dead for a Dollar (2022, W/D: Walter Hill) S: Waltz, Dafoe, Brosnahan
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun one uniting three screen greats. Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) are set to star in Western thriller Dead For a Dollar from legendary filmmaker and Western aficionado Walter Hill (The Warriors).
The film will mark Waltz’s first Western since his memorable performance as Dr Schultz in Django Unchained, for which he won his second Oscar. This time around he’ll also be playing a bounty hunter.
Myriad Pictures is launching international sales for the hot package at this week’s Cannes virtual market.
Hill will write and direct the feature which is set in New Mexico Territory, Chihuahua, in 1897. The story will follow Max Borlund (Waltz), a famed bounty hunter, hired to find and return Rachel Price, the politically progressive wife of Nathan Price, a successful Santa Fe businessman. Max is told she has been kidnapped by an African American army deserter, Elijah Jones, and is being held for ransom in Mexico. When Max goes south of the border he soon runs across his sworn enemy, expatriate American Joe Cribbens (Dafoe), a professional gambler, sometime outlaw, who Max had tracked down and sent to prison years before.
When Borlund finds Rachel and Elijah hiding deep in the wilds of the Mexican desert, he discovers that Rachel has willingly fled from an abusive husband, and the runaway soldier is, in fact, her romantic partner. Max is now faced with a dilemma: does he return the wife back across the border to the man who hired him, or does he aid Rachel’s bid for freedom and fight off ruthless hired guns and his longtime criminal rival.
The project is being produced by Jeremy Wall (Gun-Shy), Kirk D’Amico (The Last Word) and Carolyn McMaster. Matt Harris also wrote on the script.
The project would be Hill’s first as director in five years (since Michelle Rodriguez starrer The Assignment) and only his third in 20 years; Sylvester Stallone starred in 2012 pic Bullet To the Head. The filmmaker is best known for The Warriors, Hard Times, The Driver and the 48 Hours franchise, as well as being a director-producer on the Tales From the Crypt series. It will reunite the filmmaker with Dafoe after they first worked together on Streets Of Fire.
Myriad Pictures president and CEO D’Amico said: “We are extremely pleased to be working with the legendary Walter Hill who has created a Western with contemporary themes and modern feeling characters. Award-winning actors Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe will embody the extraordinary leading roles which are destined for cinematic history.”
The film will mark Waltz’s first Western since his memorable performance as Dr Schultz in Django Unchained, for which he won his second Oscar. This time around he’ll also be playing a bounty hunter.
Myriad Pictures is launching international sales for the hot package at this week’s Cannes virtual market.
Hill will write and direct the feature which is set in New Mexico Territory, Chihuahua, in 1897. The story will follow Max Borlund (Waltz), a famed bounty hunter, hired to find and return Rachel Price, the politically progressive wife of Nathan Price, a successful Santa Fe businessman. Max is told she has been kidnapped by an African American army deserter, Elijah Jones, and is being held for ransom in Mexico. When Max goes south of the border he soon runs across his sworn enemy, expatriate American Joe Cribbens (Dafoe), a professional gambler, sometime outlaw, who Max had tracked down and sent to prison years before.
When Borlund finds Rachel and Elijah hiding deep in the wilds of the Mexican desert, he discovers that Rachel has willingly fled from an abusive husband, and the runaway soldier is, in fact, her romantic partner. Max is now faced with a dilemma: does he return the wife back across the border to the man who hired him, or does he aid Rachel’s bid for freedom and fight off ruthless hired guns and his longtime criminal rival.
The project is being produced by Jeremy Wall (Gun-Shy), Kirk D’Amico (The Last Word) and Carolyn McMaster. Matt Harris also wrote on the script.
The project would be Hill’s first as director in five years (since Michelle Rodriguez starrer The Assignment) and only his third in 20 years; Sylvester Stallone starred in 2012 pic Bullet To the Head. The filmmaker is best known for The Warriors, Hard Times, The Driver and the 48 Hours franchise, as well as being a director-producer on the Tales From the Crypt series. It will reunite the filmmaker with Dafoe after they first worked together on Streets Of Fire.
Myriad Pictures president and CEO D’Amico said: “We are extremely pleased to be working with the legendary Walter Hill who has created a Western with contemporary themes and modern feeling characters. Award-winning actors Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe will embody the extraordinary leading roles which are destined for cinematic history.”
EXCLUSIVE: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe award winner Rachel Brosnahan is joining Walter Hill’s upcoming western Dead for a Dollar which already stars Oscar winner Christoph Waltz and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe.
In addition, Quiver Distribution, we understand, was instrumental in arranging the film’s financing and packaged the project alongside Canadian-based production company CHAOS a Film Company. Quiver will release the movie in the U.S. and Myriad Pictures has acquired the international distribution rights which they began selling at the recent Cannes market. Deadline first told you about the project.
Dead for a Dollar follows a famed bounty hunter (Waltz) who runs into his sworn enemy, a professional gambler and outlaw that he had sent to prison years before (Dafoe), while on a mission to find and return the wife (Brosnahan) of a successful businessman who is being held hostage in Mexico. Hill also wrote the movie. Berry Meyerowitz, Neil Dunn, Carolyn McMaster, Kirk D’Amico and Jeremy Wall are producing. EPs are Jeff Sackman, Larry Greenberg, Christoph Waltz, Lawrence Mortorff, and Alex Habrich.
“We are thrilled to be working with Rachel and this best-in-class cast,” said Quiver Distribution Co-Presidents Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman. “As a rapidly growing company in an ever-changing industry, we are always eager to expand our horizons as we venture more into finance and production.”
In addition, Quiver Distribution, we understand, was instrumental in arranging the film’s financing and packaged the project alongside Canadian-based production company CHAOS a Film Company. Quiver will release the movie in the U.S. and Myriad Pictures has acquired the international distribution rights which they began selling at the recent Cannes market. Deadline first told you about the project.
Dead for a Dollar follows a famed bounty hunter (Waltz) who runs into his sworn enemy, a professional gambler and outlaw that he had sent to prison years before (Dafoe), while on a mission to find and return the wife (Brosnahan) of a successful businessman who is being held hostage in Mexico. Hill also wrote the movie. Berry Meyerowitz, Neil Dunn, Carolyn McMaster, Kirk D’Amico and Jeremy Wall are producing. EPs are Jeff Sackman, Larry Greenberg, Christoph Waltz, Lawrence Mortorff, and Alex Habrich.
“We are thrilled to be working with Rachel and this best-in-class cast,” said Quiver Distribution Co-Presidents Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman. “As a rapidly growing company in an ever-changing industry, we are always eager to expand our horizons as we venture more into finance and production.”
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As a big fan of Walter Hill, I’m looking forward to this although he has some real stinkers in his resume.
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Big fan of Walter Hill as well. I never did see his latest movie from several years back, The Assignment, but like nearly all his movies from the 70s-80s. 90s were hit or miss and I forgot the name of the sci-fi one that got the Alan Smithee treatment.
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That was "Supernova". I didn't realize he also directed a movie named "Madso's War" under a psuedonym; it was a series pilot for Spike TV in 2010. "The Assignment" brings back that the "Comic Book" elements he used in his "Director's Cut" of "The Warriors".
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The plot described in the first post sounds too much like THE PROFESSIONALS (1966) to me.
For the record, I liked THE ASSIGNMENT very much. Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver are great in it.
For the record, I liked THE ASSIGNMENT very much. Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver are great in it.
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Veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens – a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel.
Cast: Christoph Waltz, Willem Defoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Benjamin Bratt
Available in THEATERS, on DIGITAL and ON DEMAND, September 30th, 2022
Cast: Christoph Waltz, Willem Defoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Benjamin Bratt
Available in THEATERS, on DIGITAL and ON DEMAND, September 30th, 2022
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Re: Dead for a Dollar (2022, W/D: Walter Hill) S: Waltz, Dafoe, Brosnahan
I’m always down for a good western.
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Fuck it, I’ll still watch it when it’s available.
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Re: Dead for a Dollar (2022, W/D: Walter Hill) S: Waltz, Dafoe, Brosnahan
Why is it so bright? The cinematography looks weird.
I’ll still have to buy this though. Can’t have a hole in my Hill collection.
I’ll still have to buy this though. Can’t have a hole in my Hill collection.
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Some Venice reviews coming out:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dead_for_a_dollar_2022
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dead_for_a_dollar_2022
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Out this week.
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Some Venice reviews coming out:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dead_for_a_dollar_2022
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dead_for_a_dollar_2022
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The brightness is one thing, but you can tell it was shot with a digital camera instead of film - makes it look like a documentary.
Plus everything is just too clean... including the actors. Everyone is nicely groomed, and there's not a smidge of dirt on anyone's skin or clothes. It looks like they just had a shower and put on clothes that were just taken off the rack.
Plus everything is just too clean... including the actors. Everyone is nicely groomed, and there's not a smidge of dirt on anyone's skin or clothes. It looks like they just had a shower and put on clothes that were just taken off the rack.
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I doubt anyone is interested, but it appears the bluray of this was canceled. I managed to find a dvd at Walmart today. I’ll check it out after the OHMC.
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