The History Channel's “Hatfields and McCoys” has already proven an appetite for Westerns endures. Enter “Dead Man’s Burden,” Jared Moshe’s latest film set in the post-Civil War west, which released its first trailer today.
“This place…it will kill me,” it opens, revealing Clare Bowen looking out on snowy mountains and a great expanse.
Moshe’s directorial debut stars Bowen, David Call and Barlow Jacobs. Bowen and Call play Martha and Heck Kirkland, husband and wife. Martha and her brother Wade McCurry (Jacobs) reunite on the Western frontier.
The feature film debuts June 16 during the Los Angeles Film Festival, but for those who can’t wait here’s an early look: