Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal to star in new Park Chan-Wook movie ‘The Brigands of Rattlecreek’
The next project from coveted director Park Chan-Wook, titled The Brigands of Rattlecreek, will bring together an A-list cast, including Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, and Pedro Pascal.
Oscar winner McConaughey, Oscar nominee Butler, and four-time Emmy nominee Pedro Pascal will join Decision to Leave star Tang Wei on the set of Chan-Wook’s upcoming Western.
The Oldboy director will move forward with a screenplay penned by S. Craig Zahler. The project will be on sale at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where the esteemed director will also preside over the jury.
As per Deadline, the plot is set to focus on a sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits, after they torment a small town, robbing and terrorising its occupants, and using the cover of a torrential thunderstorm to commit their misdeeds. The budget could allegedly stretch north of $60 million.
This story is a passion project for the director and has been decades in the making. It first came to light over 20 years ago; Amazon and Warner Brothers have been attached at different stages of the process.
Zahler’s previous Western, Bone Tomahawk, is among the most appreciated in the genre’s history. The plot centres on a small-town sheriff who leads a posse into a treacherous region to rescue a group of people who were abducted by a cannibalistic clan of troglodytes. The 2015 movie starred Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, and Matthew Fox.
Chan-wook’s most recent offering, No Other Choice, follows Squid Game‘s Lee Byung-hun, who stars as a middle-aged worker whose life suddenly becomes unmoored when he loses the job he’s held down for decades.
Far Out gave the movie a tremendous five stars, observing, “The performances of the central characters are excellent, Lee in particular capturing the way a job title can become a source of confidence and even identity, and the humiliation and desperation connected with unemployment. The satire is extreme but effective, never too grim to not be funny, and never quite absurd enough to fail in hitting its target.”
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