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 MOREKristen Stewart: ‘Women often operate from a place of shame’100 Nights of Hero: The story behind Julia Jackman’s lo-fi queer fantasyEscentric MoleculesMolecule 01 + Champaca is Escentric Molecules’ latest sultry scentAkinola Davies Jr on his atmospheric debut, My Father’s ShadowThe 2026 Sundance films we can’t stop thinking aboutTwinless: A tragicomic drama about loneliness, grief and queer friendshipDazed x MUBI Cinema Club returns with a screening of My Father’s ShadowNo Other Choice: Park Chan-wook’s bleak, bloody takedown of capitalismGetting to the bottom of the Heated Rivalry discourseMarty Supreme and the cost of ‘dreaming big’Ben Whishaw on the power of Peter Hujar’s photography: ‘It feels alive’Atropia: An absurdist love story set in a mock Iraqi military villageEscape 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