With Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, Stoker) at the helm and Matthew McConaughey set to star, one of the hottest packages at this year’s Cannes film market has found a home in North America.
The Brigands of Rattlecreek has been acquired by Warner Bros.’ new specialty label Clockwork in a deal pegged in the mid-teen millions, Deadline reports.
Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two), Pedro Pascal (“The Last of Us”), and Tang Wei (Decision to Leave) will also star in the Western revenge thriller. S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) wrote the original screenplay, with revisions by Park.
The movie follows “a sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits who use the cover of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize the occupants of a small town.”
Deadline notes, “The story will alight on themes central to Park’s oeuvre of vengeance, retribution, the consequences of violence and the power of memory and family, but this time in the American West.”
Park produces for Moho Film alongside Bradley Fischer (Shutter Island, Zodiac) of Wise Owl. Executive producers include Jisun Back, Mike Medavoy, and Georgia Kacandes.
The Brigands of Rattlecreek is being lined up to film in the first quarter of 2026. It will be a big theatrical play for Clockwork, which is also behind the re-release of Ken Russell’s The Devils on October 16.
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