Michael Keaton’s return to the director’s chair keeps gathering serious talent. His Western thriller Rode to Ruin, now filming in New Mexico, has added Richard Gadd, Bill Camp and Ray McKinnon to its ensemble, Variety reported Thursday (October 22).

Keaton directs and stars as Henry Tillman, a retired U.S. Marshal who has spent four decades hunting his wife’s killer — a search that leads him to Joseph Mulberry, played by Morgan Freeman, whose deteriorating mental state complicates the mission. Laura Linney also stars. Gadd, the Emmy-winning creator and star of Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, will play Clive McKinney, a dangerous gang leader out for revenge; the roles for Camp and McKinnon are being kept under wraps.

The film reunites Keaton and Freeman on screen for the first time in nearly 40 years — their last shared credit was the 1988 drama Clean and Sober. It is Keaton’s third feature as director, following The Merry Gentleman (2008) and Knox Goes Away (2023), and is produced through Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment with Keaton’s George & Leona Productions, from a screenplay by R. Dean McCreary.

Producer Lori McCreary praised the new additions and casting director Avy Kaufman for assembling the lineup. Angel Studios acquired worldwide distribution rights in September 2026 and plans a theatrical release in 2027.