Netflix has released the first photo of Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson in The Blind Side’s director John Lee Hancock’s Netflix film The Highwaymen, along with announcing its premiere date – March 29th 2019.
The pair play Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, former Texas Rangers who, at the behest of a consortium of banks, were commissioned as special investigators to assemble a posse and hunt down Depression Era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
Hancock and John Fusco penned the script for the project which was previously setup at Universal.
The outlaws made headlines. The lawmen made history. From director John Lee Hancock, #TheHighwaymen follows the untold true story of the detectives who brought down Bonnie and Clyde. On March 29, @modernwest and @WoodyHarrelson unite for the first time on screen! #NetflixNewsWeek pic.twitter.com/kRxZVgMUHU
— Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) December 10, 2018