The horror community is buzzing tonight with the news that brothers Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men) are reportedly set to reteam in the near future on a horror movie, which Ethan Coen seems to have recently announced at the Tromsø International Film Festival in Norway. The scoop comes courtesy of the website Montages.
According to the site, “Ethan Coen says that he and his brother Joel have written a new script together, and that the plan is for them to once again collaborate on the direction.”
The site also quotes Ethan Coen, alleging that he made the following comments during a Q&A session at the event: “It’s a pure horror film, and it gets very bloody.”
“If you like Blood Simple, I think you’ll enjoy it,” Coen reportedly added. The film was also referred to as being “horribly funny” by Tricia Cooke, Ethan’s wife and creative partner.
The site notes, “All the preparations are done, but Joel may have to finish another project first.”
Joel and Ethan Coen directed Blood Simple back in 1984, a neo noir crime thriller that “follows a Texas bartender who finds himself in the midst of a murder plot when his boss discovers that he is having a love affair with his wife and he hires a private investigator to kill the couple.”
Blood Simple was the duo’s directorial debut, so it sounds like they’ll return to their roots with the next project that will bring them together after working separately in recent years.
Stay tuned for more on this mysterious horror project as we learn it.
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