It’s not a proper awards season without Martin McDonagh in the mix. The Oscar-winning “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “The Banshees of Inisherin” writer/director is back with his first feature film in four years, “Wild Horse Nine.” He reteams with his Oscar-winning “Three Billboards” star Sam Rockwell for another dark comedy, this time set in 1970s Chile and aided by John Malkovich in the cast. They play wisecracking, louche CIA agents, with Rockwell in a so-on-period mustache. Watch the trailer from Searchlight Pictures below.
More on the film from Searchlight, which released McDonagh’s last two films, both hits at the Oscars: “Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter island by their bureau chief, Mj (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island’s iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies,…