Writer-director Brian Presley’s post-Civil War drama is set for an April 22 theatrical release.
Back in 2019, when we spoke to multihyphenate Brian Presley about The Great Alaskan Race, his impressive fact-based film about dog sledders who struggle to deliver urgently needed medicine to an isolated town in 1925, he piqued our interest by causally mentioning his next indie project would also be a true-life story: The Orphan Train, a post-Civil War drama he said “definitely has that western genre feel. I’m on horseback the entire movie.”
Flash forward three years, and we see that, even though the title’s been changed, Presley has made good on his promise: Hostile Territory, which has him once again doing triple duty as writer, director and star, is set to open April 22 in theatrical and and April 26 digital release.
Presley plays Jack Calgrove, a Union officer who, after his release from a POW camp at the end of the Civil War, rushes home to be reunited with his wife and children. Unfortunately, he discovers his wife has passed away during his absence. Even more unfortunately, he learns his children, considered orphans, are heading deep into the West aboard a train crossing old enemy lines. Calgrove and another former soldier are joined by a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave as they race to intercept the orphan train before all hope is lost.
Here is an advance look at Hostile Territory.
