Coen Brothers have re-edited their Netflix series into ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ which I’m agnostic about
I was really fucking stoked for the upcoming Coen Brothers’ upcoming Netflix series The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. But, that shit ain’t going to come to pass. The Brothers Coen have re-edited it into a movie. So, I guess I’m fucking stoked for their upcoming movie.
The Coen Brothers were headed to Netflix with their anthology series The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which was set to tell six Western stories in six episodes. Now, things have changed. Buster Scruggs will still hit Netflix, but the Coens have re-edited the series into a feature film instead, just in time to premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Variety (and others) are reporting the news that the Coen Brothers TV show is now a movie, and I’m conflicted. On one hand, I’m always up for a new Coen Brothers movie. And yet, I was looking forward to the idea of a Coen Brothers TV series (no, Fargo doesn’t count). It’s worth noting that when Buster Scruggs was announced over a year ago, it wasn’t officially referred to as a “TV show.” Instead, it had the very classy-sounding distinction of a “feature-length omnibus consisting of six separate stories.” Still, the original plan was for those six stories to be spread out over six episodes. Here’s the original breakdown of the stories, as reported last year.