Sydney Sweeney is an aspiring nation singer who concocts a dangerous scheme to get some money within the trailer for Americana.
Author-director Tony Tost’s crime characteristic hits theaters Aug. 22 from Lionsgate after premiering at SXSW in 2023. Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, Eric Dane, Zahn McClarnon and Simon Rex additionally star within the up to date Western film.
Americana facilities on various individuals whose paths intersect as they attempt to monitor down a uncommon Native American artifact often called a “ghost shirt.”
“I acquired a extremely dumb concept I’d wish to run by you,” Sweeney tells Hauser within the trailer. “I feel one thing unhealthy goes down.”
Later, as violence ensues, Halsey exclaims, “Proper now, I’m apparently in the midst of a goddamn homicide spree.”
Tost, who serves because the showrunner for the Peacock sequence Poker Face, marks his characteristic directorial debut with the movie that he helmed from his personal script. Alex Saks produces the film.
Sweeney also can quickly be seen within the Apple TV+ movie Echo Valley alongside Julianne Moore and within the forthcoming Lionsgate thriller The Housemaid reverse Amanda Seyfried.
In his overview of Americana for The Hollywood Reporter, critic Justin Lowe wrote, “Tost incorporates the wide-open areas, cultural conflicts and endemic lawlessness typical to Westerns, whereas inverting typical expectations by foregrounding Native American views on among the movie’s thornier social points.”
He added, “On the identical time, the frequent shootouts, uncommon weapon decisions (compound bows and game-hunting arrows) and excessive physique counts suggest an amusingly ironic subversion of the style.”