The film centers on a woman (Natalie Portman) who must defend her farm when her outlaw husband (Noah Emmerich) returns home after a gunfight at death's door. With his gang--led by John Bishop (McGregor) coming to kill them, she seeks the help of an ex-lover (Joel Edgerton) to defend themselves. Rodrigo Santoro will play a character named Fitchum.
This film has had a wild ride that began when original director Lynne Ramsay quit over a dispute with producer Scott Steindorff who said that incident was the result of a last minute attempt by Ramsay's lawyer to renegotiate terms. Steindorff was quick to call Ramsay's decision not to show up for the first day of production “insane.” Less then 24 hours later Warrior helmer Gavin O'Connor was brought on as her replacement.
Actor Jude Law then left the production because, he signed on to work with Ramsay, and not with O'Connor. Law ironically came on to the picture as the result of an earlier casting shift that happened when Michael Fassbender dropped out after having a reported falling-out with Ramsey.
Cooper left last week. But thankfully the this latest change hasn't affected the shoot because right now it's in a planned shut-down phase. It's something they built in when O'Connor took over – he couldn't take on the project cold so even as they began shooting immediately, they restructured the schedule, putting in this time frame which would allow them to breath and catch up. Cooper's part was always scheduled to shoot during the latter half of production.
Brian Duffield wrote the script which forced a bidding war at the Cannes Film Festival and also made last year's annual Black List of best unproduced screenplays.
Portman, Steindorff, Terry Dougas and Chris Coen are producing the film.
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