Watch the exclusive trailer for Walkaway Joe starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan

There’s a new trailer out for the upcoming Jeffrey Dean Morgan film Walkaway Joe, coming May 8, and you can watch it here.

Walkaway Joe is a film starring The Walking Dead’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan that is set to release on May 8. The exclusive trailer has just been released, and from what we see in the trailer, this will be a dramatic film.

Morgan plays Cal McCarthy, a pool hustler who has abandoned his child. His son, Dallas (Julian Feder), embarks on a journey to located his absent father but runs into loner Joe Haley (David Strathairn). Dallas and Joe become friends as Joe feels he needs to keep the boy safe, according to Dateline. 

The main characters, Cal and Joe, both seem to have pasts they are trying to run from.  In Dallas’ case, of searching for his father, a past he is running to. Cal, who seems nonchalant about the abandonment of his son, says, “You know, Joe, there ain’t no roadmap to being a daddy. We’re just doing the best we can…”

Watch the Walkaway Joe Trailer with Jeffrey Dean Morgan:

From the trailer, we can see that Dallas is on a mission to best his father at his own game: Pool. At some point, Dallas betrays Joe, the very man who protected him and took him under his wing, saying he had no choice.

This film has been in the works since 2015 with Michael Milillo (Churchill) writing the script and the directorial debut for Tom Write. The film also stars Julie Ann Emery, David Jensen, and Susan Gallagher.

Morgan, who is in his fourth season of The Walking Dead, also starred in the recently released crime drama The Postcard Killings, which can be viewed on select streaming services. He also is working on a film entitled Shrine, which is a horror film where Morgan plays a struggling journalist who stumbles upon a series of strange events.