The Highwaymen (2019)

Directed by

John Lee Hancock

Genre

period drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 12m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 2,247 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two retired Texas Rangers are called back to hunt down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. They use old-fashioned detective work to track the couple across the American South.

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What happens

The Highwaymen is a 2019 American period crime thriller film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by John Fusco. The film stars Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, two former Texas Rangers who attempt to track down and apprehend notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde in the 1930s. Kathy Bates, John Carroll Lynch, Kim Dickens, Thomas Mann and William Sadler also star. The film had been in development hell for many years, with producer Casey Silver looking into the project as early as 2005. Originally pitched by Fusco as a possible Paul Newman and Robert Redford project, the film began development at Universal Pictures but never came to fruition. In February 2018, it was reported Netflix had picked up the rights to the film and that Costner and Harrelson would star. Filming took place later that month and in March, shooting around Louisiana and at several historical sites, including the road where Bonnie and Clyde were killed. The Highwaymen had a limited theatrical release in the United States on March 15, 2019, before being released digitally on March 29, 2019, on Netflix. It received mixed reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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