Coen Brothers' 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' will be an anthology feature
The Coen Brothers will probably once again make it to the Oscars as they are releasing their upcoming movie 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs'. The film made a surprise entry at the 2018 Venice Film Festival which also included films like Alfonso Cuaron's 'Roma' and Yorgos Lanthimos' 'The Favorite'. The film will debut at Venice and will be distributed by Netflix in September this year.
Initially projected as a Western anthology series the film is being teased by Annapurna TV which is an offshoot of Megan Ellison's stellar production arm Annapurna Pictures as "an innovative television and theatrical integrated approach" which basically means that certain parts of the anthology will receive a theatrical release. Although the show was initially not set up at any network, Netflix took up the distribution of the show in April 2017 and the Coen brothers marked the pick up by claiming, "We are streaming, motherf***rs." The limited series, which was originally supposed to feature as six standalone episodes, has now been transformed into an anthology feature film.