Two years after Joel Coen showed the world what he was capable of as a solo filmmaker with “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” his brother Ethan Coen is preparing to take a similar plunge.
Pedro Pascal and Matt Damon are confirmed to be joining the cast of Ethan Coen’s next film, his first narrative project as a solo director without his brother Joel Coen.
True Grit is less a remake and more another adaptation of the same novel as the original True Grit film. That first movie was quite successful, but you could argue the 2010 version surpassed it. Here are 20 true facts you might not know about True Grit.
There’s no raining on Beanie Feldstein’s parade. The “Booksmart” breakout and recent “Funny Girl” lead announced her next project, starring in Ethan Coen’s yet-untitled solo directorial debut.
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There’s a fusion of imagination when screenwriters and directors work together, resulting in some of the best and most iconic cinematic masterpieces ever made.
Joel and Ethan Coen have not made a movie together since 2018’s “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” and the longtime collaborators seem to be taking their film careers in increasingly different directions.
As LFO told us, “Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets.” However, William Shakespeare wrote some plays as well, and many of his plays have been turned into movies.
She’s played Cleopatra, Lady M, King Lear — and his fool, too. She’s done Puck with Julie Taymor and Beckett with Peter Brook. She’s directed “Othello”
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Joel Coen’s adaptation of Shakespeare — starring the Oscar winner as the doomed title character — is a starkly modern take that knows absolute power corrupts, absolutely
With Warner Bros.’ controversial day-and-date release strategy for 2021 firmly in the rearview mirror, the discourse around streaming versus in-theater experiences nevertheless wages on.
Together, the Coen Brothers have covered a lot of ground as collaborators and co-directors, from stark neo noir (“Blood Simple”) to bluegrass-tinged whimsy (“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”) to mid-century Hollywood shenanigans (“Hail, Caesar!”).
When production designer Stefan Dechant (“Pinocchio”) got a surprise call to meet with Joel Coen on the spur of the moment to discuss “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” his noir-like Shakespeare adaptation of murder, madness, and mayhem starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, Dechant was immediately hooked.
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