While promoting is latest film, No Other Choice, visionary director Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, Old Boy) has expressed renewed interest in teaming up with acclaimed cult filmmaker S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Dragged Across Concrete) for Brigands of Rattlecreek.
Park tells MBC Radio (via World of Reel) that he has several projects in mind but emphasized that nothing is confirmed. However, he did specifically point to “an old Western script” written by S. Craig Zahler, titled Brigands of Rattlecreek, which he says he really wants to make.
It should be noted that Park has been dancing around Brigands of Rattlecreek for years (at one point, Matthew McConaughey was attached), but has remained in limbo ever since.
As City on Fire commenter CJ puts it: “This is probably the best unproduced script I have ever read. This thing has been bouncing around executives’ desks for nearly 20 years but nobody has the balls to make it. It is epic in length and is astoundingly violent and nihilistic.”
The thought of a filmmaker like Park Chan-wook taking on a western is a reminder of the greatness of Wisit Sasanatieng’s dreamy, yet ultra-violent throwback Tears of the Black Tiger, Takashi Miike’s surreal Sukiyaki Western Django, and of course, Kim Ji Woon’s thrilling action spectacle, The Good, The bad, The Weird.
We’ll keep you updated on this project if it moves forward. Until then, check out some of the Trailers to the aforementioned titles below:
This is probably the best unproduced script I have ever read. This thing has been bouncing around executives’ desks for nearly 20 years but nobody has the balls to make it. It is epic in length and is astoundingly violent and nihilistic.
This team would be a dream to pull it all together, provided it all can make it to the screen. Matty Mac would be perfect as either the noble Sherriff or the mysterious, black-clad gunslinger Abraham. I get the feeling which one he would choose to play.
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As a fan of both directors this could be a banger in the works if done right.