Coen Brothers set to reunite for ‘pure horror’ movie: ‘It gets very bloody’

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The Coen Brothers are set to reunite to make a “very bloody” horror movie.

The acclaimed sibling administrators final labored collectively on 2018’s Western anthology movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

Since then, Joel Coen has made an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth starring Denzel Washington, whereas Ethan Coen will quickly launch the comedy highway film Drive-Away Dolls, co-written together with his spouse Tricia Cooke and starring Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan and Beanie Feldstein.

At a Drive-Away Dolls Q&A occasion in Tromsø, Norway final Friday, Ethan Coen revealed that he and Joel have written a brand new script collectively and that they intend to reunite to collaborate on the movie’s path.

“It’s a pure horror film, and it gets very bloody,” mentioned Coen, who additionally hinted that the movie is in some methods harking back to the brothers’ first movie, 1984’s violent neo-noir Blood Simple.

“If you like Blood Simple, I think you’ll enjoy it,” teased Coen, whereas Cooke added that the script is “horribly funny”.

It was just lately confirmed that Coen and Cooke will comply with Drive-Away Dolls with one other darkish comedy, Honey Don’t! The venture will reunite them with star Margaret Qualley, in addition to Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans. The movie is reportedly set in Bakersfield, California and can characteristic Evans within the position of a cult chief.

Coen and Cooke beforehand collaborated on the 2022 music documentary Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind. At the time, Coen defined the brothers’ determination to concentrate on separate initiatives by saying: “You start out when you’re a kid and you want to make a movie. Everything’s enthusiasm and gung-ho, let’s go make a movie. And the first movie is just loads of fun.

“And then the second movie is loads of fun, almost as much fun as the first. And after 30 years, not that it’s no fun, but it’s more of a job than it had been. Joel kind of felt the same way but not to the extent that I did.

“It’s an inevitable by-product of aging. And the last two movies we made, me and Joel together, were really difficult in terms of production. I mean, really difficult. So if you don’t have to do it, you go at a certain point: Why am I doing this?”

The Independent included Drive-Away Dolls in an inventory of the 24 most-anticipated movies of 2024, writing: “The Ethan half of the Coen Brothers has directed and co-written a lesbian caper movie in which Margaret Qualley and Blockers star Geraldine Viswanathan get their hands on a mysterious briefcase and tangle with crooks and criminals played by the likes of Pedro Pascal, Matt Damon and Colman Domingo. Honestly, some movies just sell themselves.”

Drive-Away Dolls is set to arrive in cinemas on 23 February.