The Night Agent’s Gabriel Basso is saddling up for a role in a new Western drama. He’ll star in Cowboy, a movie centering around the lives of a group of rodeo performers. Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) and Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks) are also set to star in the film. Deadline reports that Cowboy has begun production.
The film will be the directorial debut of Cameron Duddy, a member of the country group Midland. Duddy also wrote the film’s script with bandmate Jess Carson; Midland’s third member, Mark Wystrach (The Eyes of Tammy Faye), will co-star in the film alongside Basso, Foster, Pankow, and retired Tennessee Titans tackle Taylor Lewan. The film will focus on a troupe of traveling rodeo performers, who seek fame amidst the drudgery of life on the road and the dangerous, punishing sport in the arena. Says Duddy, “This is a personal story for me. It’s a film about what it takes to grind it out on the road chasing your dreams, and the emotional and physical toll it takes on all of us, most of all the people we love.”
Who Are the Stars of ‘Cowboy’?
Basso starred as Laura Linney’s son in The Big C and future Vice President J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy before breaking out as the star of Netflix’s ratings-smash spy thriller The Night Agent, which has a third season in the works. This year, he’ll star in the horror sequel The Strangers: Chapter 2 and Kathryn Bigelow’s new political thriller A House of Dynamite. Famed for playing men on the edge of the law and the edge of control, Foster is best known for his performances in Hell or High Water, Leave No Trace, and 3:10 to Yuma. This year, he’ll star with Ed Harris in an adaptation of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and is also set to co-star with Alan Ritchson in the action thriller Motor City, and with Manny Jacinto in the Western comedy The Stalemate. Pankow is best-known for starring as JJ Maybank on the teen drama Outer Banks; he is next set to star in the Colleen Hoover adaptation Reminders of Him.
Cowboy is a production of the Nashville-based production company Paint Horse Pictures. It will be produced by Lucas Smith of Endgame and Matt Graham, William Lowery, and Ian Bryce of Ian Bryce Productions. Star Ben Foster will executive produce the film alongside David Keinath and Jordan Yospe for DFA Entertainment, Shawn Williamson of Brightlight Productions, James D. Stern of Endgame, and Sydney Allen of Paint Horse.
Cowboy is now in production; no release date has yet been announced. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Source: Deadline
