Netflix is back in business with the Coen Brothers with its global acquisition of sinister gothic mystery film, Jack of Spades which will be getting a fall 2027 theatrical release ahead of its drop on the streamer.
The multi-Oscar winning duo previously had the western anthology feature, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on the OTT service back in 2018; the pic notching three Oscar noms.
Joel Coen directs off a screenplay he wrote with Ethan Coen and Eleanor Catton and Conor McPherson. The project reps their first reteaming behind the scenes in quite sometime after they’ve separately made their own movies: Joel Coen with Apple’s The Tragedy of Macbeth starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand and Ethan Coen with the crime comedies, Drive-Away Dolls and Honey Don’t!
Jack of Spades, which is billed as pic with intrigue and betrayal set in the Scottish Highlands, stars Olivier Award winner Patsy Ferran (Living, Darkest Hour, God’s Own Country), BAFTA nominee and Golden Globe winner Josh O’Connor (Challengers, Wake Up Dead Man, God’s Own Country), BAFTA nominee and Golden Globe winner Damian Lewis (Homeland, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood), and Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, The Crown, Another Year). The feature project is based on Frances Frederica Montrésor’s 1901 novel The Alien: A Story of Middle Age.
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Coen reunites here with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis) and longtime composer Carter Burwell who the brothers have worked with since their 1984 feature directorial debut, Blood Simple.
Producers are Robert Graf, Nomadland Best Picture Oscar winner McDormand, Joel Coen; Oscar winner Steven Rales for Indian Paintbrush; Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin for Blueprint Pictures. Donald MacKinnon is an EP.
Joel Coen is a 4x Oscar winner, taking three for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Directing on No Country for Old Men and Original Screenplay for Fargo. He reteams her with wife McDormand after The Tragedy of Macbeth. Rales won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for producing The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Netflix is also reteaming here with O’Connor after Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man in 2025 and his Emmy-winning turn as Prince Charles in The Crown.
The Coens are repped by UTA and attorney Pat Murphy. UTA represented the sale.
