War Pony has been a long time coming. Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s directorial debut actually began life on the set of another film: Andrea Arnold’s American Honey. Back in 2015, Keough, who played Krystal in that movie, was filming in a motel in South Dakota when she struck up a friendship with two extras on the film called Bill Reddy and Franklin Sioux Bob.
An initial connection while waiting for cameras to start rolling evolved into a friendship and Keough introduced them to her close friend and producing partner Gina Gammell. Soon, they all began hanging out at Reddy and Sioux Bob’s home on the Pine Ridge Reservation, sharing stories and experiences, where the idea for a feature was born.
