The Western is a genre that we don't see as regularly on the big screen as we once did, but we will be seeing the genre making a return this summer with Slow West.
Slow West
We have already been treated to The Salvation this year, and it is exciting to see this genre really enjoying somewhat of a resurgence of late.
Slow West will mark the feature film directorial of writer and director John Maclean as he reunites with actor Michael Fassbender. The pair has already teamed up on short films Pitch Black Heist and Man on a Motorcycle and now they are making the leap into features together for the first time.
Fassbender enjoyed huge success at the box office last summer when he reprised the role of Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past and it is great to see him back in a very different summer movie.
It is always great to see Fassbender back - he is a major fave here at FemaleFirst - and this will be his first big screen outing since X-Men last summer. However, Slow West will kick off a busy year for the actor, as he has already finished work on Trespass Against Us, Weightless, The Light Between Oceans, Macbeth, and Steve Jobs.
Fassbender will take on the role of Silas Selleck in the film, and is joined on the cast list by Kodi Smit-McPhee as Jay Cavendish. Smit-McPhee grabbed everyone's attention back in 2009 with The Road and has since been making a name for himself with roles in the liked of Let Me In, The Congress, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Fassbender and Smit-McPhee are joined on the cast list by Ben Mendelsohn, Rory McCann, and Alex Macqueen.
Slow West premiered at the beginning of 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was not only well received, but it went on to be awarded the Sundance Institute's World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic Winner.
At the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish (Smit-McPhee) journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas (Fassbender), a mysterious traveller, and hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way.
If blockbusters aren't really your thing and you are not looking forward to those that are on the horizon this summer, Slow West looks set to be an exciting alternative and a welcome breath of fresh air for cinema go-ers.
