Ed Harris (Appaloosa, Pollock) will direct his own adaptation of Kim Zupan’s 2014 novel The Ploughmen with Owen Teague, Nick Nolte, and Bill Murray signed on to star.
The pic is described as a “neo-noir crime thriller” and will go into production in Montana this fall. Amy Madigan and Lily Harris round out the cast.
Concourse Media and CAA Media Finance are co-representing domestic rights, with Concourse handling international and launching sales at Cannes.
The Ploughmen will be the third film that Harris directs after his Western Appaloosa and multi-Oscar nominated Pollock. Harris, Ginger Sledge (Appaloosa, Where’d You Go Bernadette), Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of BCDF Pictures (To Leslie), and Robert Knott (Appaloosa) are producers alongside Matthew Shreder and Grant Mohrman as executive producers.
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