Meanwhile, Babylon actor Diego Calva is tapped to play Henry.īetween Elordi and Edgar-Jones, the two are involved in enough projects to ensure they remain on our screens for the next decade. British actor Will Poulter has signed on to, we imagine, play Lee. CastĪlthough no concrete details have been confirmed around casting, we suspect Edgar-Jones will play Muriel, while Elordi will sit in as Julius. There he meets Henry, a blackjack artist, and the two strike up an affair. After all, Julius is stationed in Las Vegas patrolling the boards above the casino tables looking for cheats and swindlers. It turns out she's good at it, yet rather than confide in Lee, Muriel turns to her brother-in-law. Besides family, what joins both of these 1950s worlds is gambling.Īs Muriel pours coffee she eavesdrops on her patrons, the ex-jockeys and trainers of the Del Mar racetrack, and takes that knowledge to bet on the horses herself.

On Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promises them everything.If the film is to remain true to the book, On Swift Horses will revolve around two storylines Muriel, a newly married and recently orphaned woman working in a dead-end job at a diner in San Diego, and Julius, the brother of Muriel's husband Lee, a Korean war veteran, a thief and someone Muriel has met but once. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another. Meanwhile, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof, and falling in love with Henry, a young card cheat. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop, learning the language of horses and risk. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's 19th birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The spaces she creates for her characters.have the aura of realms.' ( The New York Times Book Review ) A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West.

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