If you’ve not felt the solo work of the Coen Brothers so far; Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Ethan Coen’s new comedy Drive-Away Dolls and Jerry Lee Lewis doc Trouble in Mind, then it’s time to celebrate. The Coen Brothers are reuniting on a new horror movie, and no, this isn’t some old screenplay they had in a drawer somewhere. It’s a totally new project that they worked on together.
Ethan revealed the news in an AP interview promoting Drive-Away Dolls…
“We talked about it for a long time, but we hadn’t actually written anything. We talked about the starting point. It was in a mental drawer.”
“It wasn’t breaking up. It was just me going, ‘Uaaagghh,’” Coen said of the solo journey he and his brother went on. “It was great. It’s always great. But it’s not like we were out of contact. We see each other all the time, talk all the time.”
Ethan already has his next film lined up. He’ll next direct Honey Don’t! starring Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, and Margaret Qualley. Shooting is rumored to begin this fall, and after that, Ethan and Joel will reunite.
The AP describes their horror movie as harkening “back to the Coens’ 1984 debut, “Blood Simple.” That doesn’t sound quite right to me, since Blood Simple isn’t a horror, but without knowing more they could be saying pretty much anything. Perhaps they mean in terms of size, budget, and style.
Drive-Away Dolls opens in theaters on February 23rd.