Coen brothers will partner with Netflix to launch their first TV production

The Coen brothers will partner with Netflix to launch a Western-themed TV series: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs." This is their return to the creation of western themes after "No Country for Old People" and "The Thunder of the Earth".

The Coen brothers will partner with Netflix to launch a Western-themed TV series: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs." This is their return to the creation of western themes after "No Country for Old People" and "The Thunder of the Earth".

Joel Cohen and Ethan Cohen

are the first time the Coen brothers have directed a TV series. They not only write the script themselves, but also serve as directors and producers. There are six episodes in the play, and each episode is a separate chapter. In the form of a miniseries, different actors interpret six different stories. This approach is one of the re-emerging TV series trends, and the series is expected to be available to audiences in 2018.

"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" is set during the development of the Western Frontier of the United States. Each episode tells a different story, centered around a singing cowboy, a homeless man trying to rob a bank, and a travel show actor, a miner, a woman in a dilemma and five strangers who go to a mysterious place together.

Tim Blake Nelson will once again partner with the Coen brothers to play Scruggs, the lead character on the show. As early as 2000, Nelson starred in the musical comedy film "The Three Escape Kings" directed by the Coen brothers.

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declined to disclose information about other cast members, but according to a list compiled by IMDb, Zoe Kazan, Tyne Deli, James Franco and Stephen Root are among many well-known actors in the cast.

The Coen brothers (Joel Cohen and Ethan Cohen) are the most well-known independent filmmakers in the United States today. Many of the works they direct, write and produce are classics in the film world. These include "Ice Blood Storm" in 1998, which won widespread applause, and the 1998 crime comedy "Murder of Green Toes".

Famous director and screenwriter Noah Hawley also adapted a series of limited series based on "Ice Blood Storm" for three seasons. At the time, the Coen brothers were the producers of the show, so they were no strangers to the production of TV dramas.

Western themes are also very familiar to them, and they have produced films on related themes before. In 2007, a brand-new Western movie "No Country for Old Men" directed by the Coen brothers was released, winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director; the remake of "The Grit of the Earth" released in 2010 is also a Western adventure film and received ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

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Holland, vice president of original programming at Netflix, spoke highly of the Coen brothers, who were "very visionary directors who are good at using colorful language, and storytelling is their specialty."

From this perspective, the cooperation between them is worth looking forward to.

Editor: Xiongwei