Martin McDonagh to Direct Next Film at Searchlight Pictures

Martin McDonagh, the director of “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” will direct his subsequent movie at Searchlight Pictures, a person with data of the undertaking informed TheWrap.

The untitled movie reunites him with each Disney’s Searchlight after the Oscar-nominated “Three Billboards” and in addition the UK-based manufacturing firm Film4, with whom McDonagh has labored on all 4 of his movies.

McDonagh’s new undertaking is ready on a distant Irish isle the place two lifelong pals discover themselves at an deadlock when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming penalties for the each of them. No forged has but been set for the movie, however manufacturing is predicted to start later this yr.

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McDonagh will write, direct and produce, and Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin may also produce by way of their banner Blueprint Pictures. Diarmuid McKeown, Ben Knight, Daniel Battsek, and Ollie Madden are government producers.

“Three Billboards” acquired seven Oscar nominations in 2017, together with Best Picture, and gained the Best Actress prize for Frances McDormand. McDonagh’s newest play “Hangmen” will debut on Broadway on March 19 after first premiering in London in 2015.

The deal for the untitled movie was brokered by Searchlight Pictures EVP enterprise affairs Megan O’Brien, CAA Media Finance, McKeown for Blueprint Pictures and FilmFour head of enterprise affairs Cassandra Carias.

McDonagh is represented by CAA and Knight Hall Agency.

Variety first reported the information of the undertaking.