Saban Films unveiled the official trailer for Butcher’s Crossing, the Western drama film based on the novel of the same name by John Williams, starring Nicolas Cage as a buffalo hunter who lures a naïve young man into an ambitious expedition in the Colorado Rockies.
Also starring in the film are Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus), Rachel Keller (Tokyo Vice), Paul Raci (The Sound of Metal), and Xander Berkley (T2: Judgement Day).
Release Day
Directed by Gabe Polsky, Butcher’s Crossing world premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and opens in theatres nationwide on October 20, 2023.
Synopsis
Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky’s epic frontier adventure, Butcher’s Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man’s relationship to his natural environment. Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage (1996, Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in a gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife’s edge.
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for Butchers Crossing.