Reverend Jim, or Doc Brown, if you prefer, as a heavy?
Not a first, but usually it’s been in kids’ films that the trapped in flaky roles for life Christopher Lloyd showed a touch of the dark side.
Here, he’s a sexual predator nobody wants back in town, and isn’t long for this world when he gets out of prison.
Michael Jai White is the star, playing the detective tracking through a Western town’s collection of characters (and character actors like Sally Kirkland, Mike Starr) who might be the creep’s killer.
“Making a Killing” opens in 2019.