EXCLUSIVE: He could also be on the upcoming Cannes Film Festival to preside over the jury, however Park Chan-Wook may even 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 mission Western The Brigands of Rattlecreek, with Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar), Oscar nominee Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two), four-time Emmy nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) and Chinese star Tang Wei (Decision to Leave) all aboard for the experience.
S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk)’s unique screenplay is transferring ahead as Oldboy and The Handmaiden director Park’s subsequent movie, which will likely be on sale in Cannes with Patrick Wachsberger’s Legendary label 193.
The film is known to observe a sheriff and a physician who search revenge in opposition to a gaggle of bandits who use the duvet of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize the occupants of a small city. The story will alight on themes central to Park’s oeuvre of vengeance, retribution, the results of violence and the ability 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 government producers.
Park has been eager to make the Black List script for greater than a decade and there have been reviews that Amazon was hooked up years in the past. The mission now has extra impetus than ever: it’s a uncommon package deal within the indie marketplace for its mixture of real A-list expertise, a beloved filmmaker and the style. Despite being accessible (for now) within the indie area, the mission’s scope stays spectacular and we hear the funds is being pegged north of $60M. Bone Tomahawk stays one of the vital entertaining westerns of the previous 20 years and there’ll be loads of individuals keen this one to get made.
Korean auteur Park is coming off acclaimed crime-comedy No Other Choice, which debuted at Cannes, scored three Golden Globe nominations and greater than $40M worldwide. His earlier English-language initiatives embody restricted sequence The Sympathizer, miniseries 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.
