Baldwyn, Mississippi – Six Shooter Studios LLC announced details of the U.S. theatrical release of Mysterious Circumstance: The Death of Meriwether Lewis.
The film is directed and written by Six Shooter Studios CEO Clark Richey. Executive producers include Richey, John Schneider (John Schneider Studios), Alicia Allain Schneider (Maven Entertainment), and Michael Mosca (Starling Road Productions). The film was produced by Six Shooter Studios GM Amye Gousset, Robbie Fisher (Fisher Productions, LLC), Morgan Cutturini, and P.J. Leonard.
A story of the allegedly unresolved 1809 demise of a national hero, Mysterious Circumstance sheds light on Lewis’s death by gunshot on the Natchez Trace, an isolated frontier road connecting Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi. Did the Governor of the Louisiana Territory commit suicide as history reports or was his end far more sinister?
In the film, entangled versions of Lewis’s tragic ending at a remote Tennessee inn are imagined by his friend Alexander Wilson (Billy Slaughter, Mindhunter) during a tense encounter with Priscilla Grinder (Gousset, The Card Counter), the only witness to Lewis’s final night alive. The historical thriller brings together an award-winning cast and crew that includes Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard), Sonny Marinelli (Entourage) and Evan Williams (Versailles) as Lewis.
Mississippi’s largest theatre, the Temple Theater in Meridian, will open the film on Saturday, September 17th for a two-day weekend run, screening the film both days at 2 pm.
Temple Theatre; Meridian, Mississippi
