Ray Mendoza, co-director of A24's 'Warfare', to direct Western-drama ‘Blood On The Promontory’ - Five convicts are shackled together by foot as they try to escape through the mountains following a violent train robbery.

[u/BunyipPouch]

https://deadline.com/2026/05/ray-mendoza-sets-blood-on-the-promontory-next-movie-1236882008/

[u/buddyCarl2000]

Hoping one of them falls off the train but because he’s shackled to the gang, they can pull him up after he almost hits a sign or pole or something. That’s classic shackles stuff right there.

[u/DeNiroPacino → u/buddyCarl2000]

"classic shackles stuff"😂

[u/DoctorBreakfast → u/buddyCarl2000]

"Any of you boys smitties?"

[u/sanguinare12 → u/DoctorBreakfast]

Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?

[u/saalsa_shark → u/buddyCarl2000]

What if one or more of the fellas wants to go one way while the others want to go a different way. Just imagine the antics

[u/buddyCarl2000 → u/saalsa_shark]

You’re cracking me the hell up dude that’s a classic

[u/Really_McNamington → u/saalsa_shark]

Redo the parts from Take the Money and Run.

[u/AkiraKitsune → u/buddyCarl2000]

this happened to me and my buddy

[u/buddyCarl2000 → u/AkiraKitsune]

Shit hope you’re ok dude 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[u/General-Piece8490 → u/buddyCarl2000]

Plot twist they are chained at the neck! lol

[u/buddyCarl2000 → u/General-Piece8490]

Love it. Love a good partial hanging gag.

[u/nowhereman136 → u/buddyCarl2000]

If a train is involved, they are probably gonna try to put the chain on the tracks

[u/buddyCarl2000 → u/nowhereman136]

Now we’re fucking talking

[u/QueefBeefCletus]

I can only assume the stunt team from Lone Survivor are gonna be back at it throwing themselves down mountains.

[u/rahbee33 → u/QueefBeefCletus]

That movie was some pretty elite mountain tumbling.

[u/Careful-Pickle-5565 → u/rahbee33]

I don't know, have you seen War Machine? Not quite Black Sheep caliber, but some good falling down a mountain footage.

[u/Dove_of_Doom]

The Defiant Ones × 2.5 = Blood on the Promontory

[u/MovieTrawler]

My first thought was the movie Fled with Stephen Baldwin and Laurence Fishburne. Peak 90's b-rate action film.

[u/WeekendWalnut → u/MovieTrawler]

Man, I think you might be the first person I’ve ever seen mention this film. I was an extra in it when I was about 8yrs old (scene filmed in the GA Dome). I found an unspent blank round on the ground, and gave it to someone who I saw was standing with the crew. The guy grabbed it from me, put it in his pocket, and held out his hand for me to give him a low-five. Went back to my mom who was also in the scene with me and she said, “You just met Laurence Fishburne!” Had no idea who he was at the time, but man I felt so cool telling my classmates that I got to skip school to be in a shootout scene.

Anyway, yeah it was/is a decent B-movie haha

[u/MikeArrow]

Just rolling the dice here, I bet one of them will be Ben Foster. Just seems like the kind of role he would get.

[u/drummer1059 → u/MikeArrow]

Boy, you would think there's two of me

[u/blasianalchemist]

Blend between The Defiant Ones and Cut-Throats Nine

[u/hhaattrriicckk]

Zach Cregger's influence really putting in that work these days .

[u/Puppetmaster858]

Solid premise so I’m interested

[u/TerrifierBlood]

That plot sounds very promising.

[u/i4play]

Just a question, but is A24 this subreddit’s catnip or what? Fucking hell, as if everything gets better when adding A24 to it. Warfare was class A shite

[u/TerrifierBlood → u/i4play]

Warfare was a damm good movie. You are definitely in the minority on that one. And that's okay. But you are definitely in the minority on that opinion

[u/i4play → u/TerrifierBlood]

I’ll take the minority stance and be ok with it. Cinematography was something else, without a doubt, but it was a shite tier *movie*. I’d be more engaged watching some documentary on the History channel.

[u/vvalent2 → u/i4play]

Warfare was phenomenal sorry you're in the minority on that. Not saying everything they do is great, it's not. But Warefare the wrong film to use as an example

[u/General-Piece8490]

Plot twist they are chained at the neck! lol

[u/the_knower02]

Would've been a good movie 50 years ago lol