Colin Farrell continues to maintain busy, with the Oscar-nominated actor set to star in Edward Berger‘s subsequent characteristic for Netflix.
Farrell will play the lead in The Ballad of a Small Participant, which relies on writer Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel of the identical title. Berger (All Quiet on the Western Entrance) will helm the film from a script by Rowan Joffe (Earlier than I Go to Sleep). Filming is about to start this summer time in Asia.
The Ballad of a Small Participant facilities on a high-stakes gambler who’s coping with money owed and his questionable previous whereas making an attempt to maintain a low profile in Macau when he meets a kindred spirit.
Producers embrace Berger for 9 Hours, Mike Goodridge for Good Chaos, and Matthew James Wilkinson for Stigma Movies. The Ballad of a Small Participant is the preliminary characteristic beneath Berger’s first-look cope with Netflix.
Berger directed Netflix’s 2022 movie All Quiet on the Western Entrance, which was nominated for 9 Oscars together with greatest image, together with the director incomes a nom for his work on the screenplay. Berger’s subsequent movie is the thriller Concave, which stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. It’s set for a November launch from Focus Options.
Farrell at the moment stars on the Apple TV+ drama sequence Sugar, which launched this month and was nominated for an Oscar for his function within the 2022 movie The Banshees of Inisherin. His upcoming initiatives embrace the Max sequence The Penguin, by which he reprises the title DC Comics character that he performed within the characteristic The Batman, and a task reverse Margot Robbie in A Massive Daring Lovely Journey from director Kogonada.
Deadline was first to report the information of Farrell’s casting in The Ballad of a Small Participant.