Laura Linney Joins Michael Keaton in Western ‘Rode to Ruin’

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Laura Linney is joining Western movie ‘Road to Ruin.’
Michael Keaton is starring and directing.
Morgan Freeman will co-star.

Word dropped earlier this month that Michael Keaton is choosing to make Western thriller ‘Rode to Ruin’ as his next directorial outing, while also starring as a vengeful former lawman.

Now, Deadline brings the news that Laura Linney (currently to be found being imperious and mysterious as one of the alien “Guardians” on HBO/DC series ‘Lanterns’) is the latest addition.

Morgan Freeman is already aboard the new movie, with the rights recently acquired by Angel Studios.

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What’s the story of ‘Rode to Ruin’?

(Left) Michael Keaton in the documentary 'Clemente'. Photo: Mtuckman Media. (Right) Morgan Freeman in 'The Magic of Belle Isle'. Photo: Magnolia Pictures. — (Left) Michael Keaton in the documentary ‘Clemente’. Photo: Mtuckman Media. (Right) Morgan Freeman in ‘The Magic of Belle Isle’. Photo: Magnolia Pictures.

Working from R. Dean McCreary’s script, Keaton will portray retired Marshal Henry Tillman, while Freeman is a wanted outlaw named Joseph Mulberry.

The U.S. Marshal searched forty years for his wife’s killer, and the cold trail finally heats up and leads him to an aging outlaw losing his memory – and to a buried truth neither man may survive.

Linney will portray Hedda Tessman, a frontier trader who works the territory alone, all grit and composure, and the one person the aging outlaw has allowed close in years.

‘Rode to Ruin’: Michael Keaton talks

Here’s what Keaton told Deadline about the movie:

“When I first read it, I thought, this is really good — and there’s more here for Morgan and me to mine together. Once we talked, it became clear we were on the same page. Just as ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ isn’t simply a prison movie, ‘Rode to Ruin’ isn’t simply a Western. It’s a story with a lot of layers that happens to unfold in the West.”