Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Tommy Lee Jones Join Action Comedy THE COMEBACK TRAIL

In an all-star line up, Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver, Silver Linings Playbook), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en), and Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive, The Family) have joined the cast of the upcoming action-comedy The Comeback Trail.

Lots of these movies with older actors that everyone likes and recognize are cheesy, but this one actually has a good plot. Josh Posner co-wrote the screenplay based on a 1970s film of the same name. I’ve never heard of the original, so hopefully this will be a pretty new concept for most fans.

Here’s the synopsis:

De Niro will play Max Barber, a man in debt to a mob boss (played by Freeman), who creates an insurance fraud by casting washed-up, suicidal cowboy/movie star Duke Montana (Jones) in a poorly written Western with the intention of killing him during the first days of filming. Duke somehow rises to the occasion, redeems his past misdeeds and brings Max and others along on the same journey.

This sounds like it could be a really fun and interesting movie! I’m excited to see De Niro, Freeman, and Jones together on the big screen.

Are you excited for this team up?