Shubhabrata Dutta
The Sooner State will set the stage for Ed Harris’ return to the director’s chair after 17 years! The filming of the neo-noir crime thriller ‘The Ploughmen’ will take place in Oklahoma between July 7 and August 16, 2025. Harris wrote the screenplay based on Kim Zupan’s acclaimed eponymous novel. The cast includes Bill Murray, Owen Teague, Nick Nolte, Amy Madigan, and Lily Harris.
The narrative is set in the Montana wilderness and follows Val Millimaki (Teague), a low man in the Copper County Sheriff’s Department. The sheriff (Murray) has tasked him with interrogating the recently captured notorious old murderer, Gload (Nolte). With a continuous discovery of dead bodies on his conscience, Val must try to get Gload to reveal his past. However, he finds much in common with the criminal and starts seeking counsel from him, which results in an unlikely friendship between the two men, one working for the law and the other unaffected by it.
‘The Ploughmen’ will be Harris’ third directorial feature after the Western drama ‘Appaloosa,’ which centers on two crime fighters (Harris and Viggo Mortensen) hired by the residents of Appaloosa, New Mexico, to rid them of the terror of a local rancher (Jeremy Irons). His first directorial was the multi-Academy Award-nominated ‘Pollock,’ based on the life of American painter Jackson Pollock.
Owen Teague has several prominent movies to his credit, including the coming-of-age comedy ‘Griffin in Summer,’ the Netflix crime thriller ‘Reptile,’ the rom-com ‘You Hurt My Feelings,’ and ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.’ On TV, we saw him as Harold Lauder in Paramount+’s ‘The Stand,’ Julian Spitzer in the HBO comedy series ‘Mrs. Fletcher,’ and Nolan Rayburn/Young Danny in Netflix’s ‘Bloodline.’ We will next see him in the Matthew McConaughey-led crime thriller movie ‘The Rivals of Amziah King.’
Nick Nolte’s latest acting outing was in Brandon Eric Kamin’s ‘The Golden Voice,’ in which he played Barry, a homeless veteran who connects with a young street singer through music. His other recent roles include Ethan McCoy in the action thriller ‘Blackout,’ Shakespeare in the sci-fi movie ‘Last Words,’ and Clay Banning, father of Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), in ‘Angel Has Fallen.’ On television, he played Judge Forsythe in Spectrum Originals’ ‘Paradise Lost’ and Arthur Liptin in Peacock’s ‘Poker Face.’
Bill Murray’s recent roles include Lefty in the crime comedy ‘Riff Raff,’ also starring Harris, and Walter in the comedy movie ‘The Friend,’ starring Naomi Watts. He reprised his original ‘Ghostbusters’ character, Peter Venkman, in ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ and ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife.’ We also saw him as Lord Krylar in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,’ the Colonel in ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever,’ and Dr. Robert Flaherty in the Roku Channel comedy series ‘The Now,’ starring Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Oklahoma lately served as the filming location for the 2024 remake of ‘Twisters’ and Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon.’
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