The eagerly awaited, Cincinnati-filmed The Old Man and the Gun will get its international premiere as a Special Presentation selection of September's Toronto International Film Festival, it was announced today. Toronto described the film this way: "Academy Award winners Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek lead an all-star cast, including Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Elisabeth Moss, and Casey Affleck, in director David Lowery’s true-life dramedy about an unrepentant bank robber and jail-breaker determined to live life by his own rules."
Fox Searchlight Pictures had earlier announced it will give the film a limited release on Sept. 28, the start of awards season. The film was shot in Cincinnati, including Price Hill and nearby areas, plus Dayton. It tentatively has a Oct. 5 release date for this region.
Redford told IndieWire in 2016 this would be his last film before retirement — he portrays real-life bank robber Forrest Tucker, who escaped prison at age 70 and resumed his criminal ways. The film is based on a 2003 New Yorker article by David Grann.
Director David Lowery, who also wrote the screenplay, is coming off his critical favorite 2017 indie movie A Ghost Story, which also starred Affleck (as did his earlier Ain't Them Bodies Saints). Ghost Story has marked him as a director to watch. And Redford previously starred in Lower's Pete's Dragon.
