US EditionMatthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal and Tang Wei to Star in Park Chan-Wook’s ‘The Brigands of Rattlecreek’
The package has a budget pegged north of $60 million and brings Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal and Tang Wei aboard.
- South Korean director Park Chan-wook is taking his Western project, The Brigands of Rattlecreek, to the Cannes Film Festival market, featuring Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal, and Tang Wei.
- Park has pursued the original Black List script for close to a decade, viewing the project as a capstone of his career after exploring vengeance themes in Oldboy and The Handmaiden.
- The film follows a sheriff and doctor seeking revenge against bandits who terrorize a small town during a thunderstorm, with a budget pegged north of $60M and an ensemble cast attached.
- Patrick Wachsberger and his Legendary label 193 will handle international sales for the project at the festival, while Park is also set to preside over the Cannes Film Festival competition jury.
- The director is coming off his acclaimed crime-comedy "No Other Choice", which earned three Golden Globe nominations and grossed more than $40M worldwide, marking a significant expansion of his English-language filmography.
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Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal and Tang Wei to Star in Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Brigands of Rattlecreek’
Park Chan-wook has lined up an all-star cast for his next film, the Western thriller “The Brigands of Rattlecreek”: Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, Oscar nominee Austin Butler, Emmy nominee Pedro Pascal and Chinese star Tang Wei. The vaunted South Korean director (“No Other Choice,” “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden”) will direct the film and adapt the original screenplay by S. Craig Zahler (“Dragged Across Concrete,” “Bone Tomahawk”). The hot …
Chilean actor Pedro Pascal joins the new western “The Brigands of Rattlecreek”, a project led by South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, winner of the Cannes festival, and author of the “Trilogy of Revenge.” The film, which will be presented to the market during the same French festival of this 2026, brings together a cast including Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler and Chinese actress Tang Wei. Lee also...
The new film by award-winning filmmaker Park Chan-wook, director of South Korean cinema classics such as "Oldboy", "La Doncella" and "Decision to Leave", has already announced its star cast, which will include no less than the Chilean actor Pedro Pascal. The film will be a western thriller and will be titled "The Brigands of Rattlecreek". And the cinéfilos already have expectations about what this feature film can be, as the South Korean is char…
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