Source: Calgary Herald

Western gives shot in arm to Alberta

Calgary’s film industry will get a boost this fall when a dark western starring Scott Speedman and Kris Kristofferson rides to town for a four-week shoot.

Calgary’s Nomadic Pictures will co-produce The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, a violent western about a woman trying to bring her lover — a murdered outlaw — home for burial.

Speedman, who plays the title character in flashbacks, heads an eclectic cast that includes country singers Dwight Yoakam and Kristofferson, the Station Agent’s Peter Dinklage, Beverley Hills 90210’s Jason Priestley, Deadwood’s W. Earl Brown and NCIS’s Cote de Pablo.

(more…)