He was last seen in the 2017 comedy Daddy’s Home 2, which grossed over $180 million at the box office but was a critical failure.
The Wild Bunch was a modest commercial and massive critical success and has been called one of the greatest westerns in the genre’s history, maintaining a 94% “Certified Fresh” rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
The original film, directed by Sam Peckinpah (Straw Dogs) followed an aging group of outlaws looking for one last big score as the traditional American West is disappearing around them and the industrial age is taking over.
Peckinpah (Straw Dogs) wrote the script with Walon Green.