04 March 2021
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Ed Harris is set to direct The Ploughmen, an adaptation of a 2014 novel by Kim Zupan.
Deadline has reported that the Pollock and Appaloosa director will step behind the camera for the third time, to tell the story of a mysterious friendship between a haunted young deputy sheriff and a notorious old murderer.
Valentine Millimaki, the deputy sheriff, starts to relate to John Gload, a hardened killer, as they sit in a county jail cell talking in the dark during his overnight shift. As Millimaki bonds with Gload, eventually even seeking his counsel, the worlds of both men become upended.
Ed Harris to direct The Ploughman starring Robert Duvall and Garrett Hedlund
The Ploughman and Deadline reports that he has cast Robert Duvall (
The Godfather), Garrett Hedlund (
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels) newcomer Lily Harris to star in the film.
The Ploughman is based off the 2014 novel om Kim Zupan which Harris adapted into a script. The film tells “the story of the strange friendship that develops between a haunted young deputy sheriff and a notorious old murderer that turns both their worlds upside down. The men sit across from each other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell. John Gload is a killer so adept at his job that only now has he been apprehended. Valentine Millimaki is low man in the Copper County sheriff’s department, who works the overnight shift that puts him in proximity with the killer. The young sheriff finds much in common with his prisoner, and dangerously seeks counsel from him.”