K.T Simpson
Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones and Morgan Freeman will star in George Gallo’s redo of the ’70s action-comedy “The Comeback Trail”, according to Deadline.
De Niro will play Max Barber, a man in debt to a mob boss (played by Freeman), who creates an insurance fraud by casting washed-up, suicidal cowboy/movie star Duke Montana (Jones) in a poorly written Western with the intention of killing him during the first days of filming. Duke somehow rises to the occasion, redeems his past misdeeds and brings Max and others along on the same journey.
The film reunites De Niro and Gallo, whose relationship dates back to 1988 classic “Midnight Run”, which the latter wrote.
The pic, written by Gallo and Josh Posner, films in New Mexico in June.
