With the box office failure of Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens currently causing studios to second guess the commercial appeal of westerns (and leading to the cancellation of Disney’s The Lone Ranger), it may seem like the current resurgence of westerns on the big screen is about to come to to an end. But the truth is, even if a few less studio westerns are being greenlit for a while, they will never really go away. Case in point: this week Apple debuted a trailer for Blackthorn, an upcoming western from Spanish director Mateo Gil that will get a U.S. release courtesy of Magnolia Pictures this fall.

The movie revisits the tale of Butch Cassidy, famously portrayed on screen by Paul Newman in George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and later by Tom Berenger in Richard Lester’s Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Some believe that Cassidy actually survived his showdown with the Bolivian authorities and lived out the rest of his years under the alias James Blackthorn. Sam Shepard plays Cassidy/Blackthorn, who eventually grows tired of his exile from the U.S. and heads home, but along the way crosses paths with an “ambitious young criminal” played by Eduardo Noriega. Mateo Gil is a frequent collaborator of Alejandro Amenábar’s, having co-written scripts for Open Your Eyes, The Sea Inside and Agora. Blackthorn hits select theatres on Oct. 7th; check out the trailer after the jump and see what you think.