Filmmaker Tanner Beard has returned to the American frontier with an expanded version of his Western, The Legend of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy. Fifteen years after the original, Beard has reworked it into Once Upon a Time in Texas . Henry Thomas is leading the movie, which features new scenes, updated visual effects, restored storylines, and a new musical score.
The project stars Thomas alongside Beard, Lou Taylor Pucci, Eric Balfour, and Clive Standen. The actor, known for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and The Haunting of Hill House, leads the cast in the new version of the Western.
A planned 15th-anniversary digital restoration has become a much larger project. Tanner Beard has returned to the Universal Studios backlot to film new material, bring back characters, and restore parts of the story that were removed from the original cut.
Composer Jamie Christopherson also created a new orchestral score for Once Upon a Time in Texas.
“Fifteen years later, I had the opportunity to go back into this world with everything I’ve learned as a filmmaker,” the filmmaker said in a statement. “We were shooting new scenes, bringing characters back, rebuilding the sound and music, and findi...