Yahoo Lifestyle John Malkovich & Mark Ruffalo Join Sam Rockwell In Martin McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine’ At Searchlight
EXCLUSIVE: Martin McDonagh is returning to the studio behind his two-time Oscar-winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Searchlight Pictures has come on board his next movie Wild Horse Nine, with John Malkovich and Mark Ruffalo now set to star alongside Sam Rockwell, who had already been attached to the project.
Deadline first told you about the project which was untitled back in 2021. The logline is under lock and key.
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For Ruffalo and Malkovich, it’s the first time they’ve worked with McDonagh on the big screen. For Rockwell, it’s his third teaming with McDonagh after Three Billboards, for which he won the Supporting Actor Oscar, and Seven Psychopaths.
Christopher Walken and Oscar Isaac were previously circling Wild Horse Nine but that’s no longer the case, we hear.
Blueprint Pictures and Film4 are producing Wild Horse Nine. SVP Production Taylor Friedman and Director of Development and Production Peter Spencer are overseeing the project for Searchlight, reporting to Heads of Production and Development Katie Goodson-Thomas and DanTram Nguyen.
Producers on Wild Horse Nine, written and to be directed by McDonagh, are Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Anita Overland.
McDonagh has garnered critical acclaim and multiple nominations for his films including In Bruges, Three Billboards and The Banshees of Inisherin. McDonagh who won an Oscar for the 2006 short live action title Six Shooter, is repped by Range and Knight Hall Agency.
Malkovich recently wowed at Sundance in A24’s genre comedy Opus opposite Ayo Edebiri. He has garnered Supporting Actor Oscar noms for Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, with other credits including his self-satirical turn in Being John Malkovich. As a producer, he’s worked on films like The Accidental Tourist and Juno, and made his directorial debut with The Dancer Upstairs. On stage, he’s earned multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards and directed productions like Libra and Leopoldstadt. Malkovich is represented by WME.
Ruffalo has four Supporting Oscar noms under his belt including for Searchlight’s Poor Things, Open Road’s Spotlight, Sony Pictures Classics’ Foxcatcher and Focus Features’ The Kids Are All Right. He can next be seen in Warner Bros and Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi drama Mickey 17; in Task, Brad Ingelsby’s latest crime series for HBO; and in Cooper Raiff’s upcoming Lionsgate TV series Hal & Harper.
Last year, Ruffalo also starred in the Netflix miniseries All the Light We Cannot See, after he starred in the HBO series I Know This Much Is True, which garnered him an Emmy win for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for playing the two main characters. He is repped by Lighthouse Management & Media, UTA and Keith Klevan.
Rockwell’s credits include Fosse/Verdon, Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit and Iron Man 2. He is repped by Gersh and Untitled.
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