Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe team up for gritty prison gold-smuggling thriller 'The Weight'

Ethan Hawke’s upcoming movie “The Weight” looks outstanding.

Basic info:

Plot: When Samuel (Ethan Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy (Russell Crowe) offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe, Julia Jones and Austin Amelio
Director: Padraic McKinley
Release date: September 18, 2026

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Ethan Hawke stars in the upcoming movie “The Weight.” ((Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images))

Trailer released for “The Weight.”

People are craving great entertainment right now, and it certainly does feel like Hollywood is going through a bit of a change where original ideas are actually being chased down.

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Look at the success of “Obsession” for proof of that fact. Well, it now appears Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe might have cooked up something special with “The Weight.”

Ethan Hawke standing in a dark suit at the Blue Moon Headline Gala in London

Ethan Hawke attends the “Blue Moon” Headline Gala during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England, on Oct. 16, 2025. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for BFI)

The preview paints a very dark picture of a story of desperate men on a dangerous mission to smuggle gold in return for his freedom.

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People in the comments were quick to heap praise on the trailer. One viewer on YouTube wrote, “Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe it can’t get better than that…it looks great.”

Another added, “The kind of movies we’ve been missing for decades now.”

A third chimed in with, “I love movies that actually look like they were shot in the real world and weren’t shot on a green screen or the Volume.”

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I agree with all of that, and I think “The Weight” looks outstanding. Plus, Hawke and Crowe together is a very stacked cast. Expectations are certainly high.