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Per Variety:
Looks like prestige TV is the new prestige film. With David O. Russell doing his Amazon show and J.J. Abrams writing and directing a new show with Meryl Streep starring, TV is going to get very very good.
Update: More details have emerged courtesy of the Tracking Board via Albuquerque Journal.
Tim Blake Nelson is Buster Scruggs, and the series will focus on six segments with rotating casts.
Annapurna Television is partnering with the Coen brothers on a limited series Western called ”The Ballad of Buster Scruggs." Sources tell Variety that Annapurna intends to pursue an innovative approach that could combine television and theatrical.
Joel and Ethan Coen wrote the script from an original idea and will direct the project.
The Coens will produce ”The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" through their Mike Zoss Productions label. Megan Ellison and Annapurna Television's president of television, Sue Naegle, will serve as executive producers.
It's still unclear how theatrical distribution could play a part in the project, but the intent is to shoot ”Buster Scruggs" as a miniseries. According to sources, the scope of the project seemed too challenging to be covered in one feature film.
The idea is similar to Imagine Entertainment's adaptation of the ”The Dark Tower" series. Imagine partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard had planned to do something over both theatrical and television, but ended up sticking with one feature film, which Sony will release later this year.
Plot details of ”The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" are unknown, though it will intertwine six different story lines. The brothers are no strangers to the genre, with ”True Grit" and ”No Country for Old Men" on their resume.
Looks like prestige TV is the new prestige film. With David O. Russell doing his Amazon show and J.J. Abrams writing and directing a new show with Meryl Streep starring, TV is going to get very very good.
Update: More details have emerged courtesy of the Tracking Board via Albuquerque Journal.
Tim Blake Nelson is Buster Scruggs, and the series will focus on six segments with rotating casts.
”The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs" follows a singing cowboy. The Tracking Board has learned that Tim Blake Nelson will play the title character.
”Near Algodones" is about a high-plains drifter whose own fecklessness dogs his attempts at bank robbery and cattle driving. We hear James Franco, Stephen Root (The Ladykillers) and Ralph Ineson (The Witch) will star in this one.
”Meal Ticket" follows an actor and impresario of a traveling show.
”All Gold Canyon" is about a prospector who happily finds a gold seam but then unhappily finds an evil encroacher.
”The Gal Who Got Rattled" follows two trail bosses on the Oregon Trail and a woman on the wagon train who needs the help of one of them and who might be a marriage prospect for the other. We hear Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) will play the titular ”gal." Her publicist did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
”The Mortal Remains" follows five very different passengers on a stagecoach of mysterious destination. We hear Tyne Daly (Spider-Man: Homecoming) will star in this one.