{"id":533147,"date":"2026-03-19T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533147\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:03:10","slug":"sam-rockwell-in-new-martin-mcdonagh-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533147\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Rockwell in New Martin McDonagh Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSearchlight Pictures has released the trailer for \u201cWild Horse Nine,\u201d the latest film from Oscar winner <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/martin-mcdonagh\/\" id=\"auto-tag_martin-mcdonagh\" data-tag=\"martin-mcdonagh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin McDonagh<\/a>. The filmmaker reunites with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/sam-rockwell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-rockwell\" data-tag=\"sam-rockwell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Rockwell<\/a> after directing him to a best supporting actor Oscar in \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe official logline, which was kept tightly under wraps until now, reads, \u201cShortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island\u2019s iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris\u2019s newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone\u2019s trust to this remote island paradise sideways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/john-malkovich\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-malkovich\" data-tag=\"john-malkovich\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Malkovich<\/a> and Sam Rockwell lead the cast as CIA agents Chris and Lee, respectively, while Steve Buscemi plays their bureau chief. Other cast members include Mariana di Girolamo, Ail\u00edn Salas, Tom Waits and Parker Posey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d reunites McDonagh with Searchlight, Blueprint Pictures and Film 4 after his 2022 dark comedy \u201cThe Banshees of Inisherin.\u201d That film earned nine nominations at the Academy Awards, including for best picture, best director and best screenplay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d originally launched at AFM 2021, where Searchlight first picked up the project. At the time, Christopher Walken and Oscar Isaac were slated to star alongside Rockwell, but they have since departed the project. SVP of production Taylor Friedman and director of development and production Peter Spencer are overseeing the project for Searchlight. They report to Katie Goodson-Thomas and DanTram Nguyen, the heads of production and development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMcDonagh serves as writer, director and producer alongside Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Anita Overland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d hits theaters on Nov. 6. Check out the trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Searchlight Pictures has released the trailer for \u201cWild Horse Nine,\u201d the latest film from Oscar winner Martin McDonagh.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,53974,239533,206,29122],"class_list":["post-533147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-john-malkovich","tag-martin-mcdonagh","tag-movies","tag-sam-rockwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}