Coen Brothers Transform Their Western Series Into a Movie; Here's Everything We Know

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Masters of surprise on the big screen, Joel Coen and his brother Ethan Coen (Hail, Caesar!, above) announced in January 2017 that they had written and planned to direct The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, described as an "event anthology set in the Old West." Later in the year, we heard that Netflix acquired the series and that it would feature six episodes. Tim Blake Nelson was set to star as Buster Scruggs, with the series expected to launch in 2018. Now -- surprise! -- we're hearing that the series will be, instead, a movie. Here's all we know about The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. How did the series transform into a movie? According to the Coen brothers themselves (per Variety): "We’ve always loved anthology movies, especially those films made in Italy...
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