Costner might as well have wandered over from the set of his very popular television show Yellowstone, also a story of family struggle out there in the vast lands west of the Mississippi.
Those salt-of-the-earth folks are played by Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. It is, instead, a slim but engaging descent into family ruin, complete with a bullet-strewn finale that casts our heroes as noble invaders.
But Let Him Go is nowhere near as emotionally complex as that ravishing tragedy. The film is set in the 1960s, which, when coupled with the big-sky setting, evokes Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, another bitter story of life out on the range during the middle of the last century. Adapting from Larry Watson’s 2013 novel, writer-director Thomas Bezucha steers a story of grief toward a bloody sort of rescue, in which one family proves its ragged purity over the wickedness of a corrupted clan.
LET HIM GO MOVIE MOVIE
Which is just what happens in the new film Let Him Go (November 6, in theaters), a pulpy little movie that mixes sorrow with (blessedly brief) sadism. The town is being proactive in approaching production companies into using Fort MacLeod as a location shoot.It makes a whole lot of sense, right now, for a family drama set in the American West to be cut through with violence. Keenan mentioned the town has no scheduled films coming to the area for 2021. “I think, it’s great, I think it brings a lot of business to the town of Fort MacLeod,” said part-owner of the Digbee Diner. There are only two of us in the province, ourselves and Strathcona County” said Keenan.Įstablishments along the historic Main Street also appreciate the added attention films bring in. The town offers a visual backdrop that many other places cannot match.
“It is really a huge push for our marketing and promotion of the town of Fort MacLeod,” said Town of Fort Macleod chief administrative officer Sue Keenan. For Fort MacLeod ,which is used to dealing with big Hollywood film shoots such as Interstellar, Brokeback Mountain and the latest Ghostbusters film, set to be released in 2021, hosting Hollywood bold-faced names is becoming part of its burgeoning brand. Lee-Epp is hoping the occurrence is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience. “It was my first time ever being in a movie, so I was excited," Lee-Epp said, "but (in one of my scenes),I had to cry at the same time.- so it was (also) really odd.” Then when I got it I was so excited,” said cast member Finn Lee-Epp.įor the 12-year-old, the experience being around stars like Diane Lane and Kevin Costner was pretty surreal. “It was crazy because I had no idea I would get the part. One young Calgarian even got his big break in it. The film is also shot in other places around Alberta.
The crew spent three days filming in Fort Macleod. All the brick buildings, and two three-story storefronts.” "Fort Macleod is always a great place to film. “Fort Macleod was terrific," said Let Him Go location manager Edsel Hilchie. Let Him Go starting Kevin Costner and Diane Lane is a drama centred around a couple following the loss of their son who set out to rescue their young grandson from a dangerous family.įort MacLeod's historic buildings lent an air of authenticity to the film, said one of the film's crew members. A movie filmed in a southern Alberta town is doing the unthinkable these days: being released in actual movie theatres.
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