Having directed the two best episodes of underrated Stephen King adaptation The Outsider, as well as winning an Emmy Award in 2019 for his behind-the-camera work on Netflix’s Ozark, Jason Bateman is set to helm his first film since 2015 with supernatural revenge-western The Pinkerton.
According to Deadline Warner Bros. have tapped the Arrested Development star to direct The Pinkerton, which will be the studios first original film project with Bad Robot since they signed a deal with JJ Abrams’ production company.
This being a JJ Abrams’ produced film, bar the vague ‘supernatural revenge-western‘ description, there are little or no details with regards to what the film is actually about. However, The Pinkertons were a detective agency set up in the United States circa 1850 by Scotsman Allan Pinkerton, who gained notoriety when they claimed to have foiled the Baltimore Plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. At the height of their power, the Agency was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world.
The Pinkerton will be Bateman’s third feature-film, following 2015’s The Family Fang and his 2013 directorial debut Bad Words. He was previously set to direct the Ryan Reynolds Clue reboot and Apple Studios big-budget sci-fi Project Artemis, but departed due to scheduling conflicts with Ozark, which has subsequently finished its Award-winning run on Netflix, and the age old “creative differences”.
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