Park Chan-wook creating a Western movie with Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler and Pedro Pascal

Los Angeles: South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, who is about to preside over the jury on the upcoming Cannes Movie Competition, can be heading to the French Riviera with a serious Western undertaking that includes a formidable ensemble forged.

In response to ‘Deadline’, the movie is titled ‘The Brigands of Rattlecreek’ and brings collectively Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, Oscar nominee Austin Butler and Pedro Pascal.

Chinese language star Tang Wei, who starred within the filmmaker’s critically acclaimed 2022 title ‘Choice to Go away’, can be on board the undertaking.

Written by S Craig Zahler, the screenplay has lengthy been a ardour undertaking for Park, who did revisions on the latest draft. The story follows a sheriff and a health care provider who search revenge in opposition to a gaggle of bandits who exploit a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorise the occupants of a small city. The undertaking will discover themes central to Park’s physique of labor – vengeance, retribution, the implications of violence and the ability of reminiscence and household – transplanted to the American West. Bradley Fischer and Park produced the movie for Moho Movie with Jisun Again, Mike Medavoy and Georgia Kacandes serving as government producers.

Park has been eager to make the ‘Black Listing’ script for over a decade, with the undertaking having first surfaced greater than 20 years in the past. Each ‘Warner Bros’ and ‘Amazon’ have been hooked up at completely different factors.

Park is coming off the acclaimed crime-comedy ‘No Different Selection’, which debuted at Cannes, earned three Golden Globe nominations and grossed over 40 million {dollars} worldwide. His earlier English-language credit embody restricted sequence ‘The Sympathizer’, miniseries ‘The Little Drummer Lady’ and Fox Searchlight’s ‘Stoker’. As a director, he’s greatest identified internationally for ‘Oldboy’ and ‘The Handmaiden’.