James Paxton, Bill Paxton's son, is stepping in to play his late dad's role in 'Last Train to Fortune.'
star's son, James Paxton, plays outlaw Jedidiah Dooley, the role his father would have played in the upcoming, Malcolm McDowell–starring Western.that he's been trying to get the movie made for decades. In 1994, he said, he even had Paxton and a director lined up, but then the director, Lindsay Anderson, died. He took another look in recent years.
"I said, 'I've always loved that script. It's such a beautiful script, really,'" MacDowell said. "'Why don't we get James Paxton to do it?' He'd be the same age as his dad was, almost. A little bit younger, but even better.'" By the time of his death, his son had been working in the same industry for more than a decade. His credits over the years include, the sequel to one of his famous father's most popular movies. He'd previously said that he would appear in one, McDowell stars as a schoolteacher Cecil Peachtree, who travels across the Old West in the early 1870s to take a new teaching job. When he misses his train, he meets Jedidiah and strikes a deal to travel together.
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