EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe nominee Malcolm McDowell is saddling up with James Paxton, Bernadette Peters and Laura Marano for Adam Rifkin’s western Last Train to Fortune.
Last Train to Fortune also reteams McDowell with his former wife, Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen, the duo previously starring together in the 1979 sci-fi drama Time After Time and the 1983 Martin Ritt drama, Cross Creek.
In the pic, McDowell plays Cecil Peachtree, a stuffed shirt schoolmaster, who misses the last train to Fortune and meets outlaw Dooley (Paxton) at which point they strike a deal: The gunslinger will ride the book loving Cecil to Fortune in exchange for his teacher’s stipend awaiting him.
Along the way there are gun fights, jail breaks, saloon gals and our mismatched heroes form an unlikely bond. The pic, which is produced by Michael Gerstein, Paxton, Matt Williams, Rifkin and Brad Wyman (the Oscar winning Charlize Theron drama Monster) is said to be in the spirit of True Grit, Butch & Sundance, and Once Upon a Time in the West.
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