Whether or not a Palme d’Or win is what finally pushed Jacques Audiard, perhaps France’s most marketable filmmaker, into the realm of English-language filmmaking, it will still give us a bounty-hunting John C. Reilly. According to an interview the director conducted with his native country’s RTL, next on the agendar is adapting Patrick deWitt‘s The Sisters Brothers, a western novel that tracks two hired killers, Charlie and Eli Sisters, from Oregon to the Sierra Mountains. [THR]
Their journey is one in search of a prospector, Herman Kermit Warm, this story is set in the time of the California Gold Rush, and the encounters include, per Amazon, “a witch, a bear, a dead Indian, a parlor of drunken floozies, and a gang of murderous fur trappers.” This may sound different from the Palme winner, Dheepan, which follows a Sri Lankan refugee assuming a false identity in Paris, but Audiard claims there are notable commonalities between them. Having been rather taken with the film at Cannes, we’d pay attention regardless of just about anything, but this combination of genre and star — along with the possibility of those more fantastical elements — adds another dimension.