On October 20, a new film adaptation of John Williams’s novel Butcher’s Crossing, published by NYRB Classics in 2007, will be released in select movie theaters across the U.S. Directed by Gabe Polsky, the film stars Nicolas Cage as the frontiersman Miller and Fred Hechinger as Will Andrews, the young man who drops out of Harvard to discover himself in the wilderness, eventually joining Miller’s pack of buffalo hunters.
You can watch a trailer for the movie below: