{"id":379588,"date":"2026-10-22T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379588\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:34:30","slug":"last-exit-to-brooklyn-director-edel-star-lang-reunite-on-mercy-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379588\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Exit to Brooklyn director Edel star Lang Reunite on Mercy Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/avatar-fire-and-ash-review-james-cameron-sam-worthington-1236450205\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/avatar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_avatar_1\" data-tag=\"avatar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar<\/a> star Stephen Lang<\/a> is reuniting with director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/uli-edel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_uli-edel_1\" data-tag=\"uli-edel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uli Edel<\/a> 37 years after Lang\u2019s breakthrough performance in Edel\u2019s Last Exit to Brooklyn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLang, who plays Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron\u2019s Avatar franchise, has signed on to star in The Mercy Rider, a modern-day Western thriller which Edel will direct from a script by Richard Julian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLang plays Joe McCabe, a former soldier and reclusive Texas rancher who decides to risk everything to fight back against immigration authorities after they detain a hardworking local father. Determined to reunite the farmer with his family, McCabe comes up against a hard-line immigration agent, Harvey \u201cHawk\u201d Walters, played by Irish actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jack-hudson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jack-hudson_1\" data-tag=\"jack-hudson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Hudson<\/a>. The film is set to shoot in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tG. Mac Brown, a line producer on Last Exit, and an executive producer on Martin Scorsese\u2019s Oscar-winning The Departed, and Neil Burger\u2019s 2017 hit The Upside, will produce The Mercy Rider with Hudson.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGerman-born Edel made his feature debut with the sleeper hit Christiane F. (1981), the story of a young Berlin heroin addict. Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) was his English-language debut. The adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.\u2019s novel, set in the working-class underbelly of Red Hook on the Brooklyn waterfront, circa 1952, starred Lang as a shop steward who is a closeted homosexual, and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a prostitute secretly searching for love. While just a modest commercial success, Last Exit proved a breakout film for all involved. Edel would go on to direct the Oscar-nominated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/baader-meinhof-complex-125215\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Baader Meinhof Complex <\/a>(2008).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLang is represented by Innovative Artists. Hudson is represented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/international\/\" id=\"auto-tag_international_1\" data-tag=\"international\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International<\/a> Artists Management and Framework Entertainment. Edel is represented by Gersh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avatar star Stephen Lang is reuniting with director Uli Edel 37 years after Lang\u2019s breakthrough performance in Edel\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[139305,98,100,99,4883,139306,9,24,63,40191,139307],"class_list":["post-379588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-avatar","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-international","tag-jack-hudson","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stephen-lang","tag-uli-edel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}