Ethan Coen simply confirmed the Coen brothers are again in enterprise collectively.
Ethan, who’s making his solo narrative directorial debut with upcoming comedy “Drive-Away Dolls,” informed Empire magazine that he and brother Joel Coen are “working on writing something” collectively.
Joel made solo function “The Tragedy of Macbeth” in 2021, and Ethan directed documentary “Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind” earlier than helming “Drive-Away Dolls,” written in collaboration together with his spouse and longtime editor Tricia Cooke. Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Matt Damon, and Pedro Pascal star in queer street journey comedy “Drive-Away Dolls,” which will be released in September 2024 by Focus Features.
While beforehand selling documentary “Trouble in Mind,” Ethan explained that the Coen brothers’ break up was the results of burnout after the troublesome means of capturing 2018’s “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
“Nothing happened, certainly nothing dramatic,” Ethan stated on the time. “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. 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.”
He added, “Going our own separate ways sounds like it suggests it might be final. But none of this stuff happened definitively. None of the decisions are definitive. We might make another movie.”
Joel previously informed the Los Angeles Times that Ethan stated “I think I’m going to change it out and do some other things for awhile” following “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” In flip, Joel famous that “The Tragedy of Macbeth” won’t ever had been made since Ethan wouldn’t have discovered the fabric “interesting.”
“If I was working with Ethan, I wouldn’t have done ‘Macbeth,’” Joel stated of the Oscar-nominated film. “It would not be interesting to him.”
IndieWire’s Brian Welk lately investigated how a Directors Guild of America bylaw (Article 7-208, or the “One Director to a Film” provision) may complicate a directorial pair reuniting. Read the piece here.
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