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New The Homesman Trailer – Tommy Lee Jones directs Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank and more

September 12, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tommy Lee Jones hasn’t directed many films, but when he has stepped behind the camera for the the TV movies The Good Old Boys and The Sunset Limited, as well as the movie The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, he’s come up with some interesting stuff.

Now he’s directing and starring in an old west tale called The Homesman and a new trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter) head east, where a waiting minister and his wife (Meryl Streep) have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.’

An Oscar-friendly November US release has been set. [Read more…]

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The Homesman Trailer – First look at Hilary Swank & Meryl Streep in Tommy Lee Jones’ film

April 16, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tommy Lee Jones’ has shown himself to be a decent director with the TV movies The Good Old Boys and The Sunset Limited, as well as the movie The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

He’s stepping things up a gear with The Homesman by gathering an incredibly distinguished cast, including Hilary Swank, Hailee Steinfeld, Meryl Streep, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, William Fichtner, and Jesse Plemons.

The period drama is about on a claim-jumper (Tommy Lee Jones) and a pioneer woman (Swank) in the 19th Century, who both escort three insane women on a bizarre journey from Nebraska to Iowa, where they must brave the harsh elements and lawless wastes along the way.

Now a trailer has arrived, although it’s not clear when it will be released. [Read more…]

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Tommy Lee Jones Wants To Remake John Wayne’s The Cowboys

September 6, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tommy Lee Jones’s directing career has been sporadic. He made the TV movie Good Old Boys in 1995, then didn’t make another film until The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in 2005. There was a six year gap until his HBO flick The Sunset Limited, and now he’s got The Homesman in post-production.

It seems he wants to helm another film fairly quickly, as Variety reports that Jones is developing a remake of The Cowboys. The 1972 flick was on of John Wayne’s final movies, who starred alongside Bruce Dern and Western stalwart Slim Pickens.

The movie is about ‘a rancher who is forced to train a group of boys and get a herd to market on time to avoid financial ruin after his cattle drivers leave to look for gold’. There’s no news on exactly what direction Jones will take with the movie or indeed if he’s thinking of starring.

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James Spader Joins Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman

March 29, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tommy Lee Jones must have liked working with James Spader in Lincoln (even if they never actually shared a scene together), as he’s now cast him in his directorial outing, The Homesman, which also has Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank attached to star.

The film will be Jones’ first cinematic directorial effort since 2005’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, although in 2011 he helmed an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited for HBO. Production on The Homesman is due to start fairly soon in New Mexico.

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ACTORS: James Spader, Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep DIRECTORS: Tommy Lee Jones FILMS: The Homesman

Tim Blake Nelson Joins James Franco’s Bukowski & Tommy Lee Jones’ Homesman

January 29, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tim Blake Nelson is probably still best known for O Brother Where Art Thou?, but he’s always good value for money, giving great performances in everything from Minority Report and Incredible Hulk to Syriana and most recently Lincoln.

Now he’s booked two new roles, according to THR, signing up for James Franco’s biopic of Charles Bukowski as well as reuniting with Lincoln co-star Tommy Lee Jones for the actor’s directing venture, The Homesman.

The Franco written and directed Bukowski will look at the writer’s early life as a child and teen, and how that helped shaped him as an author. Nelson will play Charles’ father, Henry, a man who dealt with the stresses of his life by hitting his son, eventually driving Charles to defend himself.

Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman meanwhile is a 19th Century tale about an untrustworthy man and a spinster school teacher who team up to transport three woman who are through to be crazy across the Western plains. Nelson will be a man who covets one of the women and tries to steal her. Hilary Swank and Meryl Streep also star. The hope is to shoot the movie this spring.

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Tommy Lee Jones Takes On Passion Project The Homesman

May 5, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tommy Lee Jones has made a few movies as a director, including The Three Burials Of Melquiades and The Sunset Limited, and now he’s lining up his next directorial vehicle with The Homesman, which he will also star in, write, and produce.

This period drama, which is described as a bit of a passion project for Tommy, centres on a claim-jumper (Tommy Lee Jones) and a pioneer woman in the 19th Century, who both escort three insane women on a bizarre journey from Nebraska to Iowa, where they must brave the harsh elements along the way.

The producers are in talks with Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp to co-produce, finance, and distribute the drama. Tommy Lee Jones will next be seen in the long-awaited sequel Men in Black III. It isn’t known when shooting will start on The Homesman. (Source: Variety)

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