‘The Thicket’ Film Units Launch Date With Samuel Goldwyn Movies

Samuel Goldwyn Movies on Thursday unveiled first look photographs for its Western thriller The Thicket, starring Peter Dinklage and Juliette Lewis, additionally asserting that it will likely be launched in theaters on Friday, September 6.

An adaptation of the novel of the identical title by Joe Lansdale, the movie watches as fierce bounty hunter Reginald Jones (Dinklage) is recruited by a determined man to trace down a ruthless killer identified solely as Cutthroat Invoice (Lewis). To take action, he rallies a band of unlikely heroes together with a grave-digging ex-slave and a street-smart woman-for-hire. Collectively they embark on a dangerous quest to trace down Cutthroat Invoice that leads them into the lethal “no-man’s-land” referred to as…The Thicket.

Set to make its French debut the week of September eighth as an official collection of the fiftieth Deauville American Movie Pageant, The Thicket additionally stars Esmé Creed-Miles (Hanna), Levon Hawke (Blink Twice), Macon Blair (I Care a Lot), Andrew Schulz (You Folks), Metallica’s James Hetfield, David Midthunder (On Sacred Floor), Arliss Howard (Mank), Leslie Grace (Within the Heights), and Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Outdated Man).

Chris Kelley wrote the script, with Elliott Lester directing and producing. Pic can also be produced by Tubi Movies, Dinklage and David Ginsberg of Estuary Movies, and Orogen Leisure. Exec producers included Jeremy Walton and David Lyons in affiliation with Moo Studios, in addition to Chad Oakes and Michael Frislev of Nomadic Photos.

Try the stills from The Thicket above and under.