Following an acclaimed run of films over the past decade with “The Handmaiden,” “Decision to Leave” and this Fall’s film festival hit “No Other Choice,” filmmaker Park Chan-wook is already lining up his next project.
The “Oldboy” and “Stoker” helmer tells MBC Radio (via WoR) that he has several projects currently under consideration with nothing yet a lock.
One that he does take time to point out though is “Brigands of Rattlecreek,” a project he dubs an “old Western script” which was written by “Bone Tomahawk” and “Brawl in Cell Block 99” writer/director S. Craig Zahler as something he really wants to make.
Dubbed ultraviolent and having been stuck in limbo for years, at last report the project was set up at Amazon.
The story centers a small frontier town attempting to fend off a crew of murderous criminals using the cover of a massive thunderstorm to take the town.
Matthew McConaughey was previously tipped for the project which would’ve seen him play a heroic town doctor who teams up with the sheriff to fight the outlaws.
Park indicates he’s also considering a film adaptation of the Japanese novel “Genocidal Organ” by Project Itoh about the rise of surveillance states following a nuclear bomb being set off in Sarajevo.
