Promised Land
2012
Directed by
Gus Van Sant
Writing Credits
John Krasinski (screenplay) &
Matt Damon (screenplay)
Filmed on location in southwestern Pennsylvania’s shale country, “Promised Land” tells the tale of what happens to a small town when the gasmen arrive. This is the story before the truck traffic, before the seismic tests, before the drills dig holes thousands of feet below the surface, before the flares, before the complaints about bad water. Matt Damon plays the earnest “landman” who gets landowners to lease their mineral rights to the fictional “Global Crosspower Solutions.”
Marcellus Shale is a sedimentary rock buried thousands of feet beneath the earth’s surface. It stretches from upstate New York south through Pennsylvania to West Virginia and west to parts of Ohio. Named after a town in upstate New York, the rock itself is millions of years old, formed from mud and organic material. The natural gas created over millions of years as a byproduct of decomposition is trapped in tiny spaces and fissures within the rock. The Marcellus Shale is just one of many shale formations across the world. When industry speaks of tapping shale gas, it often refers to it as a “shale play.” The Marcellus is one of the first shale plays to be tapped, after the Barnett Shale formation in Texas.
Main Cast:
Matt Damon ....Steve Butler
Joe Coyle....Michael Downey
Hal Holbrook...Frank Yates
Frances McDormand ....Sue Thomason
Titus Welliver....Rob
Rosemarie DeWitt....Alice
Gus Van Sant
Writing Credits
John Krasinski (screenplay) &
Matt Damon (screenplay)
Filmed on location in southwestern Pennsylvania’s shale country, “Promised Land” tells the tale of what happens to a small town when the gasmen arrive. This is the story before the truck traffic, before the seismic tests, before the drills dig holes thousands of feet below the surface, before the flares, before the complaints about bad water. Matt Damon plays the earnest “landman” who gets landowners to lease their mineral rights to the fictional “Global Crosspower Solutions.”
Marcellus Shale is a sedimentary rock buried thousands of feet beneath the earth’s surface. It stretches from upstate New York south through Pennsylvania to West Virginia and west to parts of Ohio. Named after a town in upstate New York, the rock itself is millions of years old, formed from mud and organic material. The natural gas created over millions of years as a byproduct of decomposition is trapped in tiny spaces and fissures within the rock. The Marcellus Shale is just one of many shale formations across the world. When industry speaks of tapping shale gas, it often refers to it as a “shale play.” The Marcellus is one of the first shale plays to be tapped, after the Barnett Shale formation in Texas.
Main Cast:
Matt Damon ....Steve Butler
Joe Coyle....Michael Downey
Hal Holbrook...Frank Yates
Frances McDormand ....Sue Thomason
Titus Welliver....Rob
Rosemarie DeWitt....Alice