Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Directed by	Richard Lester
Produced by	Steven Bach Jack B. Bernstein William Goldman Gabriel Katzka
Written by	Allan Burns
Starring	Tom Berenger William Katt Michael C. Gwynne Peter Weller Brian Dennehy Christopher Lloyd
Music by	Patrick Williams
Cinematography	László Kovács
Edited by	George Trirogoff
Production company	Pantheon William Goldman
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	June 15, 1979
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$9 million
Box office	$5,136,913

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 Western film and prequel of sorts to the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It starred Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid.

It was directed by Richard Lester and written by Allan Burns. It generally received mixed reviews but was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

A young Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid are wannabe outlaws who find that breaking the law is not as easy as it seems.

Allan Burns worked on the script with William Goldman, who was on board as executive producer; Goldman added some scenes and moments he wanted to introduce in the first movie but the bulk of the script was Burns'.

William Katt had recently made First Love and was being called "a young Robert Redford" so ended up being cast as Sundance. Tom Berenger was cast after the studio were impressed by his performance in Looking for Mr Goodbar.

Director Richard Lester stated he had never seen the first movie.

The film reportedly lost $4 million.

A DVD of the film was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment in February 2005. However, Anchor Bay has since lost distribution rights to the film and the DVD was forced to go out of print.

Shout! Factory acquired the rights to the film and released it on DVD as a double billing with Death Hunt on February 1, 2011.

It is currently available on BLU-RAY through Timeless Media Group.

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