It’s been a couple of years since In Bruges director Martin McDonagh made his follow-up, Seven Psychopaths. Since then, he’s busied himself writing and is preparing to launch a play, Hangmen, in London. But a long-gestating film project is also inching closer to being made, with Frances McDormand attached to star in **Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Talking with The Guardian about his work in general and the play specifically, he also makes mention of the new film. “It’s about a 50-year-old woman whose daughter is murdered and she goes to war with the police in her home town, because she thinks they are more interested in torturing black people than getting justice.” Despite its seemingly topical subject matter, it was actually written about four years ago.
He doesn’t say anything else about the film – his mind is understandably consumed with the play for now – but it’s certainly an interesting combo. McDormand seems like she’d be a great fit for McDonagh’s smart writing, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed this all comes together.
McDormand will next be heard in Pixar’s **The Good Dinosaur **(out November 27) and will also show up in the Coens’ latest, Hail, Caesar!, which is set to arrive here on February 26 next year.