{"id":460019,"date":"2026-10-08T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460019\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:46:28","slug":"star-studded-red-carpet-for-once-upon-a-time-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460019\/","title":{"rendered":"Star-studded red carpet for \u2018Once Upon a Time in Texas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas<\/p>\n

Dallas\u2019 Angelika Film Center & Caf\u00e9 flashed back to the Wild West on Tuesday evening for star-studded red carpet.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce Upon a Time in Texas\u201d<\/a> held its world premiere at the theater and welcomed many cast and crew members to celebrate the film, which opens in theaters Oct. 16 and hits video-on-demand Nov. 17. The Western is a reimagined version of director Tanner Beard\u2019s 2011 film \u201cThe Legend of Hell\u2019s Gate: An American Conspiracy,\u201d complete with 20 minutes of new footage and a fresh digitally remastered coat of paint.<\/p>\n

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Beard, who is from Snyder and is now based in Fort Worth<\/a>, said the Dallas premiere felt like a long time coming.<\/p>\n

When he made \u201cHell\u2019s Gate\u201d all those years ago, the finished product wasn\u2019t his definitive vision because of time and his own young naivety. Now, 15 years later, Beard said he\u2019s excited to give his cast and crew, and Texas, the story it deserves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s brand new but it\u2019s old,\u201d Beard told the Star-Telegram on the carpet. \u201cI hope an audience likes it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Once Upon a Time in Texas\u2019 in Texas<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce Upon a Time in Texas\u201d opens in 1905 San Francisco as Clive Standen\u2019s character searches for his missing brother (played by Beard) and flashes back to 1870s Texas, as Lou Taylor Pucci\u2019s character retells the events of \u201cHell\u2019s Gate.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Pucci first heard about the new cut, he questioned if any filmmaker had ever done anything like this before in not only re-editing the film but adding new scenes. And the way Beard was able to tie the two storylines together, especially given the big cast of \u201cHell\u2019s Gate,\u201d was fascinating to Pucci.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to play 20 years older, and I was 20 years older,\u201d Pucci said. \u201cBut I still look the same. I don\u2019t know what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The The \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Texas\u201d red carpet at the Dallas Angelika Film Center & Caf\u00e9 on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. Brayden Garcia bgarcia@star-telegram.com <\/p>\n

Beard and Standen have known each other for some time, and when the filmmaker came a calling, it was an immediate yes.<\/p>\n

Part of that yes was Standen\u2019s enthusiasm for filming the new scenes at the Universal Studios backlot in Los Angeles, where films like \u201cPsycho\u201d and \u201cBack to the Future\u201d were made.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like everyone\u2019s dream to work there,\u201d Standen said.<\/p>\n

\"The The \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Texas\u201d red carpet at the Dallas Angelika Film Center & Caf\u00e9 on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. Brayden Garcia bgarcia@star-telegram.com <\/p>\n

Russell Quinn, who is in an actor in the film and Beard\u2019s cousin, believes that \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Texas\u201d will go down in history as a classic film for those from the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n

Not only will viewers learn about how Hell\u2019s Gate at Possum Kingdom Lake got its name, but they\u2019ll get to see a who\u2019s who of Western figures cross paths like Doc Holliday, Bass Reeves, Belle Starr, Jesse James, Sam Bass and Quanah Parker.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this is going to be really enlightening for a lot of Texas people,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cAlso, if you\u2019re not from Texas, it\u2019s just going to be entertaining.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce Upon a Time in Texas\u201d opens Oct. 16 in theaters and hits video-on-demand Nov. 17.<\/p>\n

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Brayden Garcia is the entertainment reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he mainly writes about how the film and TV industry impacts North Texas, from Taylor Sheridan shows to the Fort Worth Film Commission and everything in between.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Dallas\u2019 Angelika Film Center & Caf\u00e9 flashed back to the Wild West on Tuesday evening for star-studded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-460019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}