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EXCLUSIVE: Quickfire is co-financing Blackthorn, a Spanish film which imagines what happened to Butch Cassidy after the notorious 1908 shootout at the climax of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Sam Shepard plays Cassidy. In the film, he is alive and well in Bolivia calling himself James Blackthorn. His advancing years, however, make him long for one last sight of home. Crossing the Bolivian desert, Blackthorn takes a young robber under his protection – but the two of them are hounded by armed gangs and law enforcement. Madrid-based Six Sales is selling this Spanish production currently in post. Mateo Gils, screenwriter of Agora, is making his English-language directing debut and the producer is Ibon Cormenzana’s Arcadia Motion Pictures. Quickfire’s money is an advance against unsold territories. Six Sales will be showing a promo reel at AFM. Blackthorn has already been sold to Spanish public broadcaster TVE and Canal Plus in France.
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Ugh. Sometimes you just shouldn’t go back to the well. Let old gunfighters go out in their blaze of glory, for God’s sake. That was the whole freaking point of the movie.
This will end up like “Streets of Laredo.” Millions of readers are still cursing Larry McMurtry for ruining one of fiction’s great characters with that steaming pile.
Thanks for the review of a movie you haven’t seen.
Gee I didn’t think there was much ambiguity to the ending of the original film. there were only 500 or so federal soldiers firing their rifles….
but – if a naive audience sees this film, who knows. It could be well executed. could be good.
The guy got shot by a battalion of soldiers, hundreds of rounds. HE’S DEAD!!! It’s one of the greatest endings ever put on film.
What a dumb idea.
First done in VIVA ZAPATA.
Uh, what?? No. NO. They died at the end. And yet lived forever in an iconic freeze-frame. No, no, no. What a terrible idea.
Jason II ?
Forget the movie- the actual historical record is unclear on the fate of the real Cassidy. This is a totally valid idea… and I doubt they’ll specifically push it as a direct sequel; just another work of historical fiction.
In all likelihood, this movie isn’t a literal sequel to the George Roy Hill film, but simply another film based on the life of Butch Cassidy, who was, after all, a real person.
The final scene in the Hill movie is glorious, but it’s not what actually happened. What happened involved three soldiers and a few other men (not an army) pinning two payroll thieves down in a house and wounding them severely enough in a gunfight that, as best as can be reconstructed, one of the bandits shot his partner in the head and then shot himself. The Bolivian army, the glorious final charge — that’s all fiction. Didn’t happen.
For that matter, while the two bandits who died in that incident were thought to be Cassidy and Sundance, they were never actually identified. They were buried in unmarked graves, and while there’s been attempts to recover the remains, nothing’s ever been found that’s been proved to be them.
There’s evidence that both Cassidy and Sundance returned to the US, none of it absolutely conclusive, but neither is the evidence that they died in Bolivia. Whether Cassidy lived or not, the material that suggests he may have is perfectly workable subject material for a movie. Objecting to it because it doesn’t match up with the ending of a work of fiction loosely based on Cassidy’s actual life doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
The Hill film is one of my favorite movies ever, and the shootout at the end is a wonderful piece of filmmaking, but let’s not pretend it’s history, or that no one else is allowed to make movies about those men unless they match up to what William Goldman hypothesized might have happened.
If it’s a good movie, it’s a good movie, and won’t have any effect on the Hill version. If it’s bad, it’s bad, and still won’t do anything to the Hill movie. I’ll be interested to see reviews when it comes out.
Well said.
It’s not even April 1st but some exec is playing the fool.
Don´t you guys realise that the Newman / Redford movie was fiction. Butch was never butchered in a hail of bullets. He died an old man. That´s the beauty of the thing. Very few knew (certainly William Goldman did but his script was pure fiction) but now you do.
The freeze frame immortalized the greatest cinematic duo to have lived on celluloid, but then ‘Nobody knows anything” right Will? Maybe this will be a hit.
I’m still waiting for a sequel to Thelma & Louise, after they jumped the Grand Canyon and sped off to Mexico.
Coming next: “Romeo & Juliet 2,” “The Even Wilder Bunch” and “Bonnie and Clyde: The Retirement Years.”
Sigh. A sequel to a 30+ year old movie. Way to ruin something good, again.
Hey fuck it. Let’s bring back Sundance too. Throw in a time machine or aliens or something. I hear Cowboys and Aliens is pretty good, so this could work.
Call me. Let’s do lunch.
Uh — there’s evidence Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid) may have survived and returned from Bolivia, too, though much less than for Cassidy.
The big ol’ fusillade of bullets at the end of BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID _didn’t_really_happen_, honest. And the much, much tamer historical event it’s based on may have happened to two other guys.
All those movies about Jack the Ripper don’t match up, either. It’s no big deal.
well, it doesn’t really matter what the content or validity of the piece is. if Sam Shepard is affiliated with it, it will be good! Shepard is a genius and a literary giant.