The Unholy Trinity

The town of Trinity doesn't exist, but the set does. Richard Gray fell for Paradise Valley, north of Yellowstone, while he was shooting 'Robert the Bruce' there, and rather than hunt for locations he built an entire Western town with his business partner Carter Boehm. Yellowstone Film Ranch was finished in 2020 under Emigrant Peak, and even a Nicolas Cage Western has passed through it since. 'The Unholy Trinity' is the most ambitious thing the Australian has shot on his own ranch, written by Lee Zachariah, with Pierce Brosnan and Samuel L. Jackson at the head of the cast.

Montana, the 1870s. Isaac Broadway goes to the gallows swearing he did not commit the crime he is hanging for and that the man who framed him was the sheriff of Trinity. His last request goes to the son he has barely seen: kill him. Henry rides into town with one idea in his head and runs into two problems. The first is that the man he came for is already dead. The second is that the new sheriff, Gabriel Dove, would rather nobody dug anything up.

A night in the saloon gets away from the boy and leaves him stuck in Trinity. That is when St. Christopher turns up, a preacher and a former slave who rode with his father in the closing stages of the Civil War, has waited years for his share of gold stolen from the Confederacy and reckons he knows where it is buried. Half the town takes up a shovel after that, and Running Cub, a Blackfoot woman the townsfolk blame for a killing, ends up in the middle of it.

Brosnan plays Dove with an Irish immigrant backstory behind him, one of those who came over after the famine, and Jackson gets a St. Christopher the script gives reasons rather than malice. Around them are Tim Daly as Isaac, Veronica Ferres, Q'orianka Kilcher, David Arquette as Father Jacob, Gianni Capaldi, Ethan Peck and Katrina Bowden; Paris and Dylan Brosnan make their feature debuts alongside their father.

It was shot in autumn and entirely outdoors, without a single stage and with snowfalls nobody had planned for; the prison in the opening is the old territorial jail at Deer Lodge. Marco Beltrami and his son Tristan wrote the score, and Lee Smith, who won an Oscar for 'Dunkirk', cut it. It premiered at the Zurich festival in 2024, split the critics and reached British homes in July 2025, with Paramount+ carrying it now.

• Action
• Adventure
• Western