Film & TV / NewsFilm & TV / NewsWatch the intense first trailer for The Coen brothers’ Western filmThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs bagged the Best Screenplay award at Venice Film FestivalShareLink copied ✔️September 13, 2018September 13, 2018TextYuvan Kumar Legendary duo Joel and Ethan Coen have shared the first visuals – a 2-minute teaser trailer – of their new Western film titled The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The film, which stars Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Zoe Kazan, and rock and blues icon Tom Waits, was originally meant to be a 6-part TV series aired on Netflix. This would have been the Coen brothers’ first venture into television. After announcing in July that it was going to be full-length feature film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs just went on to win the award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival, this year. In a statement, the Coen Brothers said: “We’ve always loved anthology movies, especially those films made in Italy in the Sixties which set side-by-side the work of different directors on a common theme. Having written an anthology of Western stories we attempted to do the same, hoping to enlist the best directors working today. It was our great fortune that they both agreed to participate.” The Coen brothers are on a roll, with last year’s Clooney-directed Suburbicon, and the pair have reportedly been working on a film about the dark net, chronicling the true story of the digital drugs marketplace Silk Road, and its kingpin, Ross William Ulbricht. Watch the teaser below. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREDazed x MUBI Cinema Club’s season finale: Father Mother Sister Brother6LILITH6: Inside the witchy femme mall cult of Forbidden Fruits RIMOWAGeorge Riley unpacks her favourite travel spots for RIMOWA DJ Ahmet, a coming-of-ager about an EDM-obsessed teen sheep farmerWho is Takashi Miike? An intro to Japanese cinema’s cult provocateurThe Good Boy is a sick, twisted nightmare about delinquent teensArco, a striking, soul-stirring sci-fi about lonely kids in 2075Bill Skarsgård and Gus Van Sant on their scrappy thriller Dead Man’s WireScarlet: Anime legend Mamoru Hosoda’s trippy new take on Hamlet7 unmissable films from South by Southwest 2026 Why fans are turning against Timothée ChalametOscars 2026: The biggest snubs from this year’s nominationsEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy