Ed Harris (Appaloosa, Pollock) is set to direct a feature film adaptation of Kim Zupan’s 2014 novel The Ploughmen and Bill Murray, Nick Nolte, and Owen Teague are set to star.

The movie is described as a “neo-noir crime thriller” Harris said in a statement: “I’ve been trying to get this film made for a while. It’s worth the wait to tell this intriguing story with a great cast and crew and the beauty of Montana.”

The film is set in the wilderness of Montana, “where a strange friendship develops between a haunted young deputy sheriff and a notorious old murderer.

“John Gload (Nolte) is a killer so adept at his job that only now has he been apprehended. Val Millimaki (Teague) is a low man in the Copper County Sheriff’s Department.

“As Val continues his unlucky streak of finding dead bodies, Sheriff (Murray) puts him on night duty to try and get Gload to reveal his past. Val finds much in common with his prisoner and dangerously seeks counsel from him.”

Amy Madigan and Lily Harris round out the film’s cast and will go into production in Montana this fall. The Ploughmen will be the third film that Harris directs after his Western, Appaloosa, and Pollock.

Source: Deadline