Park Chan-Wook Western To Star Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler, McConaughey
EXCLUSIVE: He could also be on the upcoming Cannes Film Festival to presides over the juryhowever Park Chan-Wook may also be heating up the market with a film package deal that has severe firepower behind it.
Park is assembling an A-list forged for his ardour challenge Western The Brigands of Rattlecreekwith Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar), Oscar nominee Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two), four-time Emmy nominee Peter Pascal (The Last of Us) and Chinese star Tang Wei (Decision to Leave) all aboard for the experience.
S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk)’s authentic screenplay is shifting ahead as oldboy and The Handmaiden director Park’s subsequent movie, which might be on sale in Cannes with Patrick Wachsberger’s Legendary label 193.
The film is known to comply with a sheriff and a health care provider who search revenge in opposition to a gaggle of bandits who use the quilt of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize the occupants of a small city. The story will make clear themes central to Park’s oeuvre of vengeance, retribution, the implications of violence and the facility of reminiscence and household, however this time within the American West.
Producing are Bradley Fischer (Zodiac), and Park for Moho Film (No Other Choice). Jisun Back for Moho Film, Mike Medavoy and Georgia Kacandes are govt producers.
Park has been eager to make the Black List script for greater than a decade and there have been studies that Amazon was connected years in the past. The challenge now has extra impetus than ever: it is a uncommon package deal within the indie marketplace for its mixture of real A-list expertise, a beloved filmmaker and the style. Despite being out there (for now) within the indie house, the challenge’s scope stays spectacular and we hear the price range is being pegged north of $60M. Bone Tomahawk stays one of the vital entertaining westerns of the previous 20 years and there will be loads of folks prepared this one to get made.
Korean auteur Park is coming off acclaimed crime-comedy No Other Choicewhich debuted at Cannes, scored three Golden Globe nominations and greater than $40M worldwide. His earlier English-language tasks embody restricted sequence The Sympathizerminiseries The Little Drummer Girl and Fox Searchlight’s stoker.
Park is represented by WME, Industry Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson Teller. Zahler is represented by UTA and Range Media Partners. McConaughey is represented by WME and Yorn Levine. Butler is represented by WME, Brillstein Entertainment, and Sloane, Offer. Pascal is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen. Wei is represented by CAA. Fischer is represented by Gang, Tyre.