• Source: Edge (TV pilot)

      • Edge is a 2015 television pilot produced by Amazon Studios. It is a Western set in Kansas based on the Edge book series by George G. Gilman.


      Premise


      Josiah Hedges, also known as Edge, is a half-Mexican hired gunslinger who sets out for vengeance after his younger brother is killed by a group of his former comrades in the Union Army. The group is led by Edge's nemesis, Merritt Harknett, a psychotic sadist who delights in inflicting pain on others and who also seeks something in Edge's possession.


      Cast


      Max Martini as Edge
      Ryan Kwanten as Harknett
      Yvonne Strahovski as Beth
      Alicja Bachleda as Pilar
      William Sadler as Big Bill
      Beau Knapp as Little Bill
      Robert Bailey, Jr. as Benny
      Noah Segan as Deputy Bean
      Jerry Vahn Knight as Young Josiah Hedges
      Alex Sawunyama as Young Benny
      Nate Warren as Jamie Hedges
      Leo Martini as Young Jamie Hedges
      Christopher Hagen as Preacher
      Dylan Kenin as Deputy Trickett
      Kevin Owen McDonald as Cyrus
      Chad Randall as Graves
      William Paul Brown as Cobb
      Jacob Browne as Benny's Father
      Nathaniel Augustson as Union Guard
      Eva Dolezalova as Annie


      Production


      Edge was released as a pilot for a potential TV series but was not picked up by Amazon.


      Reception


      In general, critics appreciated the action and effects of the pilot but were critical of the writing and story.
      Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times called the action "well staged" but called the film an uncomfortable combination in which the supposedly realistic brutality "is contradicted by the super-anti-heroic invincibility of its death-dealing central character."
      Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called it "an ultraviolent western that starts out with promise but degenerates into gore for gore's sake." He further wrote that the only reason to produce something so over the top "is to appeal to bloodlust" and that "by the pilot's end, it barely matters who is killing whom or why."
      Barry Lowry of Variety.com wrote that "too much of the writing misses the bull's-eye."


      References




      External links


      Edge at IMDb

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