The spanish director and scriptwriter Mateo Gil's new movie "Blackthorn" will be opened in Spain today 1st of July. The film already had it's american premiere in the Festival of Tribeca earlier this year and the spanish preview premiere was held on 28th of June.
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| Sam Shepard as James Blackthorn, alias Butch Cassidy | |
Gil, who has already directed various films in Spain (“Nobody Knows Anybody", “Spectre”, “Housebreaking”, ”Say me”) and worked as co-writer with the award nominated film maker Alejandro Amenábar, has made a surprise out of this new project that is actually a european western. The movie recreates the story of the legendary Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard) who, as the story tells, was supposedly killed by the Bolivian army in 1908, but the truth (in Gil's movie) is that the famous outlaw actually managed to survive and had been hiding in Bolivia for 20 years. Now, as an old man he has adopted the name of James Blakthorn and he wants to return to the US, but a young spanish engineer (Eduardo Noriega) who has robbed a huge bolivian mine pops up in his life.
Starred by Sam Shepard and Eduardo Noriega, the rest of the cast consists of Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Padraic Delaney, Dominique McElligott and Cristian Mercado.
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| Stephen Rea, Mateo Gil and Eduardo Noriega at the spanish Premiere |
The production companies involved in the project are Arcadia Motion Pictures, Aiete-Ariane Films, Quickfire Films, Pegaso Producciones, Noodles Production, Buena Suerte, Eter Pictures and Nix Films, where as the distribution and theatrical release will be in charge of Magnolia Pictures in the U.S. and of Vertice Cine in Spain.
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