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EXCLUSIVE: This was ever going to beryllium 1 of nan hottest packages astatine nan Cannes marketplace and now Warner Bros‘ caller explanation Clockwork has beaten retired rivals to return The Brigands of Rattlecreek disconnected nan array successful a North American woody pegged successful nan mid-teens. The workplace is successful exclusive negotiations for nan movie and a woody is all-but done.
Cannes movie show assemblage president Park Chan-Wook is group to nonstop nan buzzy movie, which is owed to prima Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar), Oscar nominee Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two), four-time Emmy nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) and Chinese prima Tang Wei (Decision to Leave).
The movie will travel a sheriff and a expert who activity revenge against a group of bandits who usage nan screen of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize nan occupants of a mini town. The communicative will alight connected themes cardinal to Park’s oeuvre of vengeance, retribution, nan consequences of unit and nan powerfulness of representation and family, but this clip successful nan American West.
Filming is being lined up for first 4th of adjacent twelvemonth and understandably this will beryllium a large theatrical play for nan caller WB specialty label, whose 1 announced caller task truthful acold is Sean Baker’s adjacent movie Ti Amo! The section is besides down nan caller trim of Ken Russell’s The Devils, which is playing astatine Cannes and will beryllium re-released successful October. Park’s movie seems cleanable fare for nan division, which is being oriented toward auteur-type filmmakers pinch wide appeal.
S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk)’s original screenplay is nan adjacent movie for Oldboy and The Handmaiden director. Park did revisions connected nan astir caller draft. Producing are Bradley Fischer (Zodiac), and Park for Moho Film (No Other Choice). Jisun Back for Moho Film, Mike Medavoy and Georgia Kacandes are executive producers.
Patrick Wachsberger’s Legendary explanation 193 is handling world income while WME Independent and CAA Media Finance handled nan North America deal.
Park has been keen to make nan Black List book for much than a decade; nan task first came to ray much than 20 years agone and Warner Bros and Amazon had some been attached astatine different times. It was a uncommon package successful nan indie marketplace for its operation of genuine A-list talent, a beloved filmmaker and nan genre. The project’s scope is awesome and nan fund was being pegged northbound of $60M. Bone Tomahawk remains 1 of nan astir entertaining westerns of nan past 20 years truthful location has been plentifulness of goodwill for this one.
Korean auteur Park is coming disconnected acclaimed crime-comedy No Other Choice, which debuted astatine Cannes, scored 3 Golden Globe nominations and much than $40M worldwide. His erstwhile English-language projects see constricted series The Sympathizer, miniseries The Little Drummer Girl and Fox Searchlight’s Stoker.
