Damn, I really love the sound of this next project…
Last month, our gal Marcey told y’all about Mickey Rourke’s possible involvement in a picture called SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, Martin McDonagh’s IN BRUGE follow up. And while that sounded awesome enough on its own, it’s the supporting cast McDonagh is assembling that has me even more excited. Peep it…
Per Deadline, Woody Harrelson (right), Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko (below) have all signed on to star in SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS. While it seems Rourke is now out of the picture, the new trio will join Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell. Talk about a hell of a cast…especially for a filmmaker in only his second feature effort.
Here’s what the story is all about:
Farrell plays a screenwriter in Los Angeles who struggles to find the handle on his script, called Seven Psychopaths. The screenwriter gets drawn into the dog-napping escapades of his friends (played by Rockwell and Walken). Once the beloved Shih Tzu owned by a psychopathic gangster goes missing, the screenwriter finds himself fueled with all the drama he needs for his screenplay, if he can stay alive long enough to write it all down.
Sounds pretty damn fun to me. IN BRUGES was able to successfully balance the tone of a black comedy with a straight up crime-thriller, so I’m very interested to see how McDonagh handles this material. Remember, dude’s an award winning playwright, so the chance to hear Walken, Waits, Rockwell and Harrelson deliver his lines…it should be a great one!
With CBS films distributing in the U.S., SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS started production this week in L.A.
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