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He’s been acting for 30 years and recently even became part of a franchise (Dukes of Hazzard), but I would never think of Willie Nelson as a movie star. Yet the country music icon and star of 1980s Honeysuckle Rose has launched a production company called Luck Films, which will produce 3-5 films a year, many featuring Nelson and/or his music. Nelson isn’t going at this alone, though. Joining him are actor/producer Kerry Wallum, actor/filmmaker Norman Macera and producers Scott Macauley and David Von Roehm. According to Variety, each release will have a budget under $3 million.
The company’s first movie, which I can’t find any info on except that it will star Nelson and start shooting in May, is called The Dry Gulch Kid. The next, titled Shoot Out of Luck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837131/), will feature Nelson and Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb as sideshow cowboys who “tangle” with the mob for a comedic hybrid of the Western and gangster genres. The film’s IMDb page adds that it will be “a dramatic, suspenseful journey that ends with a musical celebration.” Sounds to me like *Stir Crazy *meets *The Cowboy Way *meets … well it doesn’t really matter because it’s Willie Nelson and Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb going up against the mob. My 1980s-dwelling adolescent self would have been all over it.