The new western drama will premiere June 24 in theaters and on digital platforms.
The first trailer has been released for Murder at Yellowstone City, the new western starring Gabriel Byrne, Thomas Jane, Isaiah Mustafa, Richard Dreyfuss, Anna Camp, Nat Wolff and Tanaya Beatty. And to paraphrase Leonardo DiCaprio’s famous line in Django Unchained — they already had our interest, but now they’ve got our attention.
Set for a June 24 theatrical and digital release, Murder at Yellowstone City pivots on Cicero (Isaiah Mustafa) a former slave who wanders the 1881 frontier in search of a place to call home. At first, Yellowstone City — a once-thriving Montana Territory boomtown now on the decline — looks like the place he’s been looking for. The population already encompasses a fair share of outcasts, including a saloonkeeper (Richard Dreyfuss) hiding his union with the man he loves (John Ales); a daughter of the Mexican wars (Aimee Garcia) who’s ferociously protective of the saloon girls and the town’s orphans; and a Lakota Sioux woman (Tanaya Beatty of TV’s Yellowstone) who, as the sole survivor of the massacre that took her band, is now caught between the culture she lost and the life she is building.
On the day that Cicero arrives, however, a local prospector discovers gold – and is murdered. Sheriff James Ambrose (Gabriel Byrne) assumes the killer is the newcomer, because “he’s the only man who doesn’t know what I’ll do to him.” But as the mystery of the prospector’s murder deepens, and a clash between faith and the law threatens to tear the town apart, Thaddeus Murphy (Thomas Jane), the town’s new minister, and Alice (Anna Camp), his missionary wife, must stand up to Sheriff Ambrose and bring the true culprit to justice.
Filmed on location on a site that was known as Yellowstone City in the 1860s, Murder at Yellowstone City is the first production to be shot on a new western backlot established by producer-director Richard Gray in Montana.
“I’ve dreamed about the Wild West since I was a kid,” Gray said, “so to make this film with such a talented cast at our own western backlot in Montana is beyond my wildest dreams. It’s the first film ever shot at the Yellowstone Film Ranch. It’s a really special story – a thrilling western. I can’t wait to share it with everyone.”
Here is the trailer for Murder at Yellowstone City.
