Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe to Star in Walter Hill's New Western 'Dead for a Dollar'
The Oscar-winning star of ‘Django Unchained’ will play another bounty hunter with a heart of gold.
Django Unchained star Christoph Waltz is putting on his bounty hunter boots again, as the two-time Oscar winner is set to star opposite Willem Dafoe in a new Western from legendary director Walter Hill.
Deadline broke the news, reporting that the film is called Dead for a Dollar, and it takes place in 1897 in the area of the southwest that would eventually become New Mexico. Waltz will play a famed bounty hunter named Max Borlund who is hired by a successful Sante Fe businessman to find his wife, who is said to have been kidnapped by a Black army deserter who’s now holding her for ransom in Mexico. Max heads south of the border, he discovers that the woman and her alleged captor are actually lovers who fled from her abusive husband, forcing Max to decide whether to bring the woman back to the States to collect his bounty or help them escape and fight off other men who have been looking for them.
Dafoe will co-star as Max’s sworn enemy, Joe Cribbens, a professional gambler and part-time outlaw who Max tracked down and sent to prison many years earlier. The two of them cross paths in Mexico, but whether they clash once again or form an unlikely partnership remains unknown.
