After nearly 40 years of various studios and the filmmaker attempting to get an adaptation of the neo-Western drama off the ground, Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho is finally gearing up to come to audiences as Warner Bros. has set the film for an October 22 release.
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Nash originally penned the novel as a screenplay rejected twice by 20th Century Fox before turning to novelization after his failed attempts, though would later sell the script multiple times to various studios.
Crossing rural Mexico on their back way to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.