Giving the Western some swagger in ‘The Harder They Fall’
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — “The Harder They Fall” has all of the gunfights, train robberies, saloons, and showdowns you would expect in a Western. But Jeymes Samuel’s film also dusts off many of the traditional limitations of an old genre. “The Harder They Fall” is a spirited and brash Black Western that swaggers to its own hip-hop beat. Netflix executives think it could start a new franchise for the streamer. It stars Jonathan Majors, Regina King and Idris Elba and is currently playing in theaters. It makes it debut on Netflix on Wednesday.
