THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), Willie Watson (Hail, Caesar!), David Krumholtz (Superbad), James Franco (The Disaster Artist), Stephen Root (Get Out), Ralph Ineson (The Witch), Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List), Harry Melling (The Lost City of Z), Tom Waits (Seven Psychopaths), Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks), Bill Heck (Pit Stop), Grainger Hines (Lincoln), Jackamoe Buzzell (Hell or High Water), Tyne Daly (The Enforcer), Brendan Gleeson (Calvary), Jonjo O’Neill (Defiance), Saul Rubinek (Wall Street), Chelcie Ross (Basic Instinct)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men), directors, writers, producers, editors; Megan Ellison (Her) and Sue Naegle (Family), producers; Carter Burwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), composer; Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis), cinematographer

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A collection of six stories set in the Old West, including that of sharp-shooting singer Buster Scruggs (Nelson), a bank robber (Franco), two weary travelling performers (Neeson and Melling), a prospector (Waits) mining for gold, a lovestruck woman (Kazan), and a Lady (Daly) who reigns judgement on a wagon full of strangers…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Originally developed as their first Netflix miniseries, the Coen Brothers have since reedited The Ballad of Buster Scruggs down to a single anthology movie, filled with their usual quirky nature and heavy fascination for the Old West.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2018 (EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX)

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