Last week, Deadline announced the meeting of 3 screen greats: Christoph Waltz, winner of two Oscars, William Dafoe, nominee for four Oscars, and American director Walter Hill in a new “Western” movie titled “Dead for a Dollar.” A Dollar).

Although this is not the first collaboration between the two stars Waltz and Dafoe, director Wes Anderson recently brought them together in the movie "The French Dispatch", which is expected to be shown next fall.

Also, the film's release date has yet to be announced, "but with Hill's direction and excellent acting duo Waltz and Dafoe, there's no doubt that movie fans will be looking forward to it," said film critic Charles Barfield.

the story of the movie

The story, also written by Hill, takes place in New Mexico in 1897, about the famous bounty hunter, Max Borlund (Christoph Waltz), who is hired by the well-known Santa Fe politician and businessman, Nathan Bray, to retrieve his wife Rachel, who Max is said to have been kidnapped in Mexico on the The hand of an African-American man named Elijah Jones, a deserter from the US Army, is holding it for ransom.

After Max begins his mission heading south, he finds Rachel and her alleged kidnapper hiding in the depths of the Mexican desert, and discovers that she has voluntarily escaped with him, to escape the treatment of her abusive husband, and this fugitive soldier is only her romantic partner.

This puts Max in front of one of two options, either to take Rachel back across the border to the man who charged him for the money, or to help her gain her freedom, which could cause him to fight a fierce and bloody battle with dozens of merciless hire guns.

However, events turn heated up when Max meets Joe Crippens (William Dafoe), a professional gambler, criminal rival, and longtime archenemy of the bounty hunter's longtime outlaw, who is tracked down by Max until he is captured and sent to prison years ago.

Austrian Cowboy

Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor, born in Vienna, 1956, entered Hollywood through the Oscars. He won two Oscars, 83 other wins, as well as 42 nominations.

He rose to fame after working with director Quentin Tarantino on "Inglourious Basterds" in 2009 and "Django Unchained" in 2012, both of which gave him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

His last role this year was opposite Daniel Craig in the movie No Time to Die.

Now, Dead for a Dollar is Waltz's first Western film since his breakout role as Dr. Schultz in Django, in which he proved to be a good fit for cowboy roles, despite his Austrian descent and theatrical make-up.

The star of hostile roles

As for the star Willem Dafoe, he was born in Wisconsin, USA, in 1955. He made more than 100 films in his cinematic career, and was nominated for 4 Oscars, 83 other awards, as well as 114 nominations.

He was known for his unusual roles in cinema, especially the aggressive ones, and he is famous for his role in the movie "Spider-Man" in 2002, and critic Andreas Wiseman says about him, "It is not strange to pay tribute to him, after decades of his career during which he took He received 4 nominations for the Academy Awards, the most recent of which was in 2019 for his role in the movie (At Eternity's Gate).

Dafoe had previously worked with Walter Hill on the 1984 film Streets of Fire, in which he had one of his greatest early roles as a villain.

Legendary director

Walter Hill is an American director, screenwriter and producer, born in 1942, who is widely known for action films and the American West. He said in one of the interviews, "I love the American West, even in contemporary stories."

Charles Barfield has described him as a "legendary filmmaker for decades", although he has directed only 4 films since 2000, the last of which was The Assignment in 2016.

Which makes the announcement of the release of "Dead for a Dollar", Hill's first project after a 5-year hiatus, "more exciting," according to Barfield.

Critic Nikki Munoz said of him that he "has the perfect experience to make the new Westerns stand out from his peers."

Hill was known in the seventies and eighties for the films “Hard Times” 1975, “The Driver” 1978, “The Warriors” 1979, and “48 Hours” 1982, and starred with him. Sylvester Stallone in the 2012 movie Bullet to the Head.

As for the president and CEO of the company producing the upcoming movie, he said of the cooperation with him, “We are very pleased to work with the legendary director Walter Hill, who created an idea from the American West with contemporary treatment and modern characters, led by two award-winning actors, who will embody extraordinary roles in the history of cinema. ".