“Fear Street,” “The Woman in the Window” and “The White Lotus” scene stealer Fred Hechinger has scored the lead role opposite Nicolas Cage in Gabe Polsky’s western “Butcher’s Crossing” based on John Williams’ 1960 novel.
Hechinger will play Will Andrews, a naive Harvard student who heads west in 1874 to fulfill his dream of seeing the country and living off the land.
He agrees to fund a dangerous but potentially lucrative expedition to Colorado, led by Miller (Cage), an experienced hunter obsessed with a near-mythological buffalo herd he once glimpsed in the Rockies.
As the weeks and then months pass, Miller’s single-minded resolve to slaughter every buffalo in the enormous herd puts Will and the rest of the hunting party at risk of losing their sanity and their lives.
Polsky, Will Clarke, Andy Mayson, Molly Conners are producing. Hechinger will next be seen playing Seth Warshavsky in Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy”.
Source: Deadline
