The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Production Designer on How the West Was Built
Joel and Ethan Coen‘s new anthology western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs offers six darkly comic 19th-century vignettes designed by the brothers’ longtime collaborator Jess Gonchor. Oscar-nominated for his contributions to the Coens’ True Grit and Hail, Caesar!, Gonchor initially thought the movie, which launches Friday on Netflix, would be a snap. “When the guys gave me the script and I read it top to bottom,
Behold the new Trailer for the Coen Brothers The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The mere notion of a six-part Western anthology from the Coen Brothers is music to a film lover’s ears. The fellas who brought you a classic western like True Grit and the cat-and-mouse West Texas thriller No Country for Old Men know their way around an epic. In fact, there’s really not a genre these guys can’t make their own, so expectations are high for their new Netflix six-parter The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
The Coen Brothers Morph The Ballad of Buster Scruggs into a Feature Film
The anticipated six-episode anthology TV series, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is not exactly what we thought, as it appeared on the lineup for the Venice Film Festival today. The Coen brothers are always surprising us. Variety confirmed that their new theatrical and innovative TV show has turned into a movie and will be eligible to compete this Oscar season. For the Coen brother it’s go big or go home and they often seem to be only capable of topping themselves.
