Blackway

Blackway is a 2015 thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson and written by Joseph Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs, based on the 2008 novel Go with Me by Castle Freeman Jr.

The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta, Alexander Ludwig and Hal Holbrook.

In an Oregon logging community, a man, Blackway, has been harassing Lillian, a woman newly returned to her hometown.

Instead, he hides in the nearby trees, and awaits Blackway's arrival, using Lilian and Nate as bait.

Having run out of bullets, they struggle and she is repeatedly stabbed, but Lester surprises them and shoots Blackway, killing him.

They carry the dead bodies of Blackway and Murdoch deeper into the woods, to be eaten by animals.

In August 2014, during an interview, writer Joseph Gangemi revealed that Gregory Jacobs and he had created a film adaptation of novel Go with Me by Castle Freeman, Jr.[1] On September 19 it was announced that Anthony Hopkins would star in the lead role and Daniel Alfredson would direct the film, which Enderby Entertainment and The Gotham Group would produce.

[2] On October 23, Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment came on board to co-finance and handle international rights to the film.

[4] On November 17, Alexander Ludwig joined the film to play a young sidekick of an ex-logger.

[8] Guy Lodge of Variety called the film a "turgid, tension-free revenge thriller".