John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell hit up Easter Island in Martin McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine’ trailer
John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell co-star in a new trailer for Wild Horse Nine, Martin McDonagh’s new dark comedy.
The two bickering men play oddball CIA agents sent by their boss, played by Steve Buscemi, to Easter Island just before the Chilean coup of 1973.
Rockwell’s character fruitlessly and frustratedly attempts to exert control over Malkovich’s increasingly loose-lipped nonchalance with hilarious consequences, as the pair tries to keep undercover.
In one clip, Malkovich’s character yells, “Your country’s gonna get fucked!” after telling two students, played by Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas, that he is part of the CIA. The male leads’ subsequent entanglement with the students will promise to pull them down an unexpected path.
In another scene, the odd pair grumble over killings made on aeroplanes, with Malkovich’s character insisting to Rockwell, “I’ve killed people in countries you can’t even spell.” He gives Czechoslovakia as an example.
The stacked supporting cast also includes White Lotus hero Parker Posey and Tom Waits, who starred in Seven Psychopaths and plays Malkovich’s brother in Wild Horse Nine.
Though the film’s fashion is evidently entrenched in the seventies, McDonagh has since suggested that the film holds a mirror up to our current era: “A lot of the things it’s talking about we’re dealing with in the present day,” he told Vanity Fair.
McDonagh’s other projects include 2008’s In Bruges, 2017’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and the 2012 movie, Seven Psychopaths.
Far Out gave McDonagh’s last film, The Banshees of Inisherin, a glowing four-and-a-half-star review, observing, “The combination of an insightful black comedy script by the Academy Award-winning Martin McDonagh, with a winning combination of three lead actors and an excellent supporting cast, results in one of the funniest and most consistently entertaining films this year. “
Wild Horse Nine is slated for a November 6th theatrical release. Watch the full trailer below.
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