Arcadia bringing a Blackthorn
Arcadia Motion Pictures is ready tackle the reprise of the Butch Cassidy story with Blackthorn. Variety has more on what the story si about:
The English-language “Blackthorn” has Shepard as an incognito Butch Cassidy 15 years after his supposed gunning down by the Bolivian police, plotting to return to the U.S. and retire. Noriega plays a trigger-happy cowboy who loses Cassidy’s life savings, pushing Cassidy into a final job, a mine heist. Rea limns a railroad employee, originally sent after Cassidy following his string of U.S. bank robberies, who’s still keen to hunt Cassidy down.
Directing the picture will be Mateo Gil, writer of the 2006 film Vanilla Sky which was a remake of the 1997 feature Abre Los Ojos. Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noreiga and Stephen Rea will star in it with filming beginning in March of 2010.
