The Coen brothers are writing and directing their first TV series The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Western is thought to have been too big in scope for a feature film
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The Coens will write and direct The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, it has been announced, here’s all we know about it at this stage premise/plot-wise (as per Variety):
- It is a Western
- It will intertwine six storylines
- It is a limited series (so probably somewhere between three and six episodes)
- It was originally conceived as a feature film but is just too big in scope
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs will be produced by Annapurna Television and there are plans for some sort of combination television and theatrical release that means the series could also make it to the big screen as well as the small one.
The Coens are of course no stranger to Westerns, their filmography including True Grit and No Country for Old Men.
We recently learned that they have written the script for George Clooney’s next film as director, Suburbicon.
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