The Big Picture Nick Nolte and Bill Murray are set to star in The Ploughmen, Ed Harris' next feature as director. The film is a neo-noir thriller depicting the unlikely bond between an aging killer and a young sheriff's deputy. The Hollywood Reporter has the news that the film is slated to go into production in Montana this fall, and will be shopped at this month's upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
The Ploughmen will adapt Kim Zupan's 2014 novel of the same name, in which Nolte will play John Gload, a killer who's finally apprehended after a lifetime of violence. Put in jail by a small-town Montana sheriff , he has a conversation with Val Millimaki , who's trying to find out where Gload has buried decades of bodies. The two men soon find they have more in common than they realize.
Who is Ed Harris? Close The famously intense Harris broke out playing astronaut John Glenn in 1983's The Right Stuff. He has since earned acclaim for a number of films, including The Abyss, Apollo 13, The Truman Show, The Hours, and Top Gun: Maverick. In 2022, he wrapped up a four-season stint playing the mysterious Man in Black on HBO's adaptation of Westworld.
In addition to directing The Ploughmen, Harris will also write the script. He will produce alongside Ginger Sledge, Robert Knott, and Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of BCDF Pictures. The Ploughmen will film this fall, and is set to be shopped at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival; no release date has yet been set. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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