Bradley Cooper backs Guy Pearce for The Marshal Cannes launch

Guy Pearce is set to lead The Marshal, and bradley cooper is tied to the project’s latest push toward Cannes. The neo-Western thriller launches at the festival next month, with a preview run built around finding distribution later this year.

Pearce arrives with recent momentum. He earned his first Oscar nomination in 2025 for The Brutalist, then starred in Killing Faith, a supernatural Western that Stephen King approved and that later became one of the most popular movies on Hulu when it debuted there.

Andrew Baird, Jay Thames

Andrew Baird is directing The Marshal from a script by Jay Thames, and the pairing gives the film a familiar creative spine. Baird and Pearce have already worked together on Zone 414 and Sunrise, making this their third collaboration.

The first official image of Pearce in the film was previewed on April 28, 2026. That preview came ahead of Cannes, where the film will show a few times in hopes of securing distribution for theaters or streaming later this year.

Cannes, May 12 to 23

The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 12 to May 23, and The Marshal is set to launch there next month. The film is being positioned with DNA from the Taylor Sheridan-produced series Marshals and American Sniper, which places it squarely in a market that still rewards a clean genre pitch and a recognizable lead.

That distribution plan is the real business move. Pearce’s recent path shows why: Killing Faith did not land a wide theatrical rollout, but it found a streaming home and became one of Hulu’s most popular movies on debut, so The Marshal is entering Cannes with both a theatrical and streaming outcome on the table.