Christian Bale reteams with
"Out of the Furnace" writer/director
Scott Cooper for the western drama
"Hostiles". Bale stars as a legendary Army captain in 1892, who is tasked with escorting a dying Cheyenne war chief (
Wes Studi) and his family from an isolated Army outpost in New Mexico, to the grasslands of Montana. On their journey they encounter a suicidal young widow (
Rosamund Pike), whose family was murdered. Together they must overcome the punishing landscape and hostile Comanche.
The ensemble cast also includes
Jesse Plemons, Jonathan Majors, Rory Cochrane, Timothee Chalamet, Adam Beach, Q'orianka Kilcher, Ben Foster, Stephen Lang, Paul Anderson, Scott Wilson, Bill Camp and
John Benjamin Hickey.
"Hostiles" premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September, 2017. It was released in select theaters on December 22, 2017 and expanded nationwide on January 26, 2018. The film received positive reviews from critics, with most of the praise aimed at the film's cast. It is expected to gross around $10 million in its first wide weekend from 2,816 locations.
Find out more about the movie after the jump.