It’s been many years since the famed filmmakers, the Coen brothers, teamed up for a movie.
Joel and Ethan Coen haven’t collaborated on a new project since the American Western anthology film, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” in 2018. Now they’re getting together once again for what Ethan confirmed would be a “very bloody” horror movie that’s also humorous.
The brothers have been working separately lately, with Joel putting out an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” starring Denzel Washington in 2021. Ethan will soon release the comedy “Drive-Away Dolls,” which was co-written with his wife Tricia Cooke and stars Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Beanie Feldstein.
At a “Drive-Away Dolls Q&A” event in Tromsø, Norway, Ethan shared that he and Joel had written a new script together and would also direct it together.
“It’s a pure horror film, and it gets very bloody,” Ethan said. “If you like ‘Blood Simple,’ I think you’ll enjoy it,” he added, referencing the brothers’ first film, a violent neo-noir which premiered in 1984.
He also called the script for the new project “horribly funny.”
Ethan had previously talked about his decision to make films separately from his brother after years of them being thought of as a single entity in Hollywood, per The Independent.
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“You start out when you’re a kid and you want to make a movie. Everything’s enthusiasm and gung-ho, let’s go make a movie. And the first movie is just loads of fun,” he said in 2022 while promoting “Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind,” which he also made with Cooke.
“And then the second movie is loads of fun, almost as much fun as the first. And after 30 years, not that it’s no fun, but it’s more of a job than it had been. Joel kind of felt the same way but not to the extent that I did.”
He continued, “It’s an inevitable by-product of aging. And the last two movies we made, me and Joel together, were really difficult in terms of production. I mean, really difficult. So if you don’t have to do it, you go at a certain point: Why am I doing this?”