This falls 500mg metformin weight loss squarely in the rumor category, but the internet is abuzz with news that Brad Pitt is going to star in the adaptation of Rockstar Games Red Dead Redemption.
I’m all for another kickass western. Hollywood doesn’t make enough. And anyone who has played Red Dead Redemption knows there is enough awesome material in there to make 10 movies. It’s basically a wild west version of Grand Theft Auto with horses instead of cars. And hookers instead of… nope. Both versions have hookers. But wild west hookers have more sass.
Here’s a detailed synopsis of the intro plot on Red Dead Redemption:
In the year 1911, John Marston, a retired outlaw formerly of a gang led by Dutch van der Linde, is taken away from his wife Abigail and his son Jack by government agents. The agents tell Marston that his family will be safely returned to him if he hunts down the remaining lead members of his former gang. Left with no choice, Marston travels to the territory of New Austin to capture or kill one of his old friends, Bill Williamson, who now runs his own gang of bandits out of Fort Mercer. Marston confronts Williamson at the fort, only to be shot and left for dead outside the fort. A rancher, Bonnie MacFarlane, finds him wounded, and brings him to a doctor to be treated.
After recovering from his wounds several days later, Marston begins repaying the MacFarlanes for their help. At the same time, he recruits help for a plan to attack Fort Mercer. Along with U.S Marshal Leigh Johnson of Armadillo, con man Nigel West Dickens, grave robber Seth Briars and drunken arms dealer Irish, Marston uses a Trojan Horse strategy to breach the fort and massacre Williamson’s gang, only to find that Williamson had already fled to Mexico to seek help from Javier Escuella, another member of Marston’s old gang. Irish agrees to take Marston into Mexico over the river border.
This sounds like an epic start to what should be a wild west franchise, right? This should be the first mega-budget western trilogy. How cool would it be to see a wild west movie realized on the scale of a Transformers or Inception.
Brad Pitt is clearly the perfect guy. He was great as Jesse James in the underseen The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford. Great movie, although it did drag a bit by the end. My fellow editor Colin will tell you it’s the best thing since sliced bread but he was just dazzled by the amazing cinematography. Still, it’s worth a viewing.
