Overview
- Park Chan-wook’s The Brigands of Rattlecreek, reported Friday by Deadline and Variety, now has Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal and Tang Wei attached.
- Legendary’s international label 193, run by Patrick Wachsberger, will handle global sales as the film heads to the Cannes marketplace.
- Park will direct and adapt S. Craig Zahler’s screenplay, which follows a sheriff and a doctor seeking revenge after bandits raid a small town during a thunderstorm.
- Bradley Fischer will produce alongside Park for Moho Film, with Jisun Back, Mike Medavoy and Georgia Kacandes on as executive producers and a budget pegged north of $60 million.
- The project revives a script that topped the 2006 Black List and has cycled through studios and attachments for years, with Park also presiding over this year’s Cannes competition jury as financing and distribution are still to be set.