Michael Keaton and Morgan Freeman Reunite for New Western After 40 Years

Michael Keaton & Morgan Freeman Reunite For The First Time After Nearly 40 Years In New Western Movie Credit: IPA/INSTARimages Published Sep 1, 2026, 11:50 AM EDT Matthew Thomas is a celebrity entertainment and trending news journalist. Passionate about the media. He developed a love for storytelling that he loves to share with others through his writing. Matthew has been able to cover a variety of subjects he is very passionate about, including movies, TV shows, comics, and wrestling. Experience:Matthew brings more than a decade of experience writing about pop culture, movies, TV shows, wrestling, comic books, true crime, weather conditions, safety tips, taxes, wildlife, archaeology, music, and trending news. He is also an experienced interviewer with a strong track record of speaking with high-profile talent and subject-matter experts. He has conducted high-profile interviews with major actors, including Matt Damon, Matthew McConaughey, Jason Sudeikis, Jon Hamm, Alan Ritchson, Rob McElhenney, Danny Trejo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joshua Jackson, Damon Wayans, and John C. McGinley. He has also interviewed several prominent TV personalities, including Howie Mandel, Ted Lasso star Phil Dunster, Happy’s Place star Rex Linn, the cast of Stuart Saves the Universe, and acclaimed series creators Bill Lawrence and Chuck Lorre. As a versatile entertainment journalist, he has also interviewed notable musicians such as Travis Barker and Nick Jonas. Additionally, Matthew has interviewed reality show contestants from hit series like Survivor, Big Brother, and The Traitors. To round out his extensive portfolio, he has interviewed subject-matter experts on taxes, public safety, and winter weather conditions. Sign in to your ScreenRant account Almost forty years after they last worked together, Michael Keaton and Morgan Freeman are set to co-star in an upcoming Western. Deadline has exclusively reported that Michael Keaton and Morgan Freeman are reuniting for the first time since 1988's Clean and Sober. The two beloved actors are set to co-star in Rode to Ruin, a Western thriller written by R. Dean McCreary which Keaton will also direct. In the upcoming film, Keaton will star as a retired Marshal named Henry Tillman alongside Freeman, who has been cast as Joseph Mulberry, an aging outlaw. The movie's story will focus on a U.S. Marshal who has spent 40 years searching for his wife's killer only to be led to an old outlaw who is losing his memory. After he recently filmed his first scene with Robert De Niro, Keaton told Deadline what drew him to Rode to Ruin and working with Freeman again. "When I first read it, I thought, this is really good – and there’s more here for Morgan and me to mine together. Once we talked, it became clear we were on the same page. Just as The Shawshank Redemption isn’t simply a prison movie, Rode to Ruin isn’t simply a Western. It’s a story with a lot of layers that happens to unfold in the West. " Check out Keaton's comments below: More to come...