Jake Busey Saddles Up For Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that Jake Busey has boarded Joel Souza’s resurrection production of Rust in Montana at the Yellowstone Film Ranch.
In the Alec Baldwin produced and starring western, Busey will play the role of Drum Parker. The logline for Rust, written by Souza, based on a story developed by the director and Baldwin: A 13-year-old boy, left to fend for himself and his younger brother following the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas, is taken on a violent, harrowing journey to old Mexico by his long estranged grandfather after he’s sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.
Patrick Scott McDermott (Chicago Med, South Side) is playing the role of Lucas Hollister in the film. Frances Fisher also stars.
Busey starred in season 3 of Stranger Things as Bruce, a journalist for the Hawkins Post with questionable morals and a sick sense of humor.
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