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The Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is now a movie

July 27, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Last year, Joel and Ethan Coen began work on The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a Western anthology series featuring six stories, which was subsequently picked up for distribution by the streaming service Netflix.

The series would have marked the Coens’ first foray into television, but Variety is now reporting that it has been reworked into a 132-minute feature film, retaining the same anthology format. The movie will premiere at the Venice Film Festival, before receiving an Oscar-qualifying limited theatrical release ahead of its Netflix premiere.

“We’ve always loved anthology movies, especially those films made in Italy in the Sixties which set side-by-side the work of different directors on a common theme,” said the Coens in a statement. “Having written an anthology of Western stories we attempted to do the same, hoping to enlist the best directors working today. It was our great fortune that they both agreed to participate.”

SEE ALSO: Rumoured story details for the Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs will feature “six tales about the American frontier told through the unique and incomparable voice of Joel and Ethan Coen” and features Tim Blake Nelson as Buster alongside a cast that also includes Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson, James Franco, Zoe Kazan, Tyne Daly, Stephen Root, Tom Waits, Willie Watson and Ralph Ineson.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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