Fred Hechinger to affix Nicholas Cage in upcoming Western movie Butcher’s Crossing

By Express News Service

Actor Fred Hechinger will star reverse Nicholas Cage within the upcoming Western movie Butcher’s Crossing. An adaptation of John Williams’ 1960 novel, the movie is about to be directed by Gabe Polsky, who additionally wrote the movie together with Liam Satre-Meloy.

Hechinger will play the function of Will Andrews. Will, a naive Harvard scholar, heads to the West in 1874 to fulfil his dream of seeing the nation and residing off the land. He additionally agrees to fund a harmful expedition to Colorado, which is led by an skilled hunter  Miller (Cage), who’s obsessive about a near-mythological buffalo herd he as soon as glimpsed within the Rockies.

As time passes, Miller’s resolve to slaughter the buffalos within the huge herd places Will and the remainder of the looking get together vulnerable to shedding their sanity and their lives.

Butcher’s Crossing is produced by Polsky and Phiphen Pictures’ Molly Conners, alongside Will Clarke and Andy Mayson for Altitude Film Entertainment and Cage’s Saturn Films.

Hechinger broke out after his function as Quinn in HBO’s darkish comedy collection The White Lotus. He was lately seen in Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, Amazon’s The Underground Railroad collection, Netflix’s The Woman within the Window, Tom Hanks-starrer Western News of the World, and extra.