Streaming: Berger brings Farrell in front of the camera for a Netflix film

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Berger brings Farrell in front of the camera for a Netflix film

Colin Farrell can currently be seen as a private detective in the series “John Sugar” on Apple TV+. photo

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“Nothing New in the West” director Edward Berger is bringing Irish star Colin Farrell in front of the camera for his next Netflix project. Filming is scheduled for this summer in Asia.

Star cast for the next film project Edward Berger: The Oscar-winning director (“Nothing New in the West”) will film the novel “The Ballad of a Small Player” with Irish actor Colin Farrell, the streaming service Netflix announced. Filming is scheduled to begin this summer in Asia. According to the announcement, Briton Rowan Joffe (“The American”) is supplying the script. The original is the novel by the British travel reporter and writer Lawrence Osborne, who has lived in Asia for many years and has written about the culture there.

“The Ballad of a Small Player” (2014) centers on a British gambler with a shady past who poses as Lord Doyle in the casino city of Macau. He tries his luck as a card player – and accumulates debts. The encounter with a young woman changes his life.

The film project has finally been announced, wrote author Lawrence Osborne on Instagram. His partly autobiographical novel will be shot in Macau in June under the direction of Berger with Farrell as Lord Doyle – “my desperate alter ego”.

Farrell stars as a private detective in John Sugar

Farrell (47), who was nominated for an Oscar last year for his role as a callow farmer in the tragic comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin”, is currently playing a private detective in the neo-noir series “John Sugar” on the streaming service Apple TV+ see.

Berger’s literary adaptation “Nothing New in the West” won four awards at the Oscars in 2023, including best international film. The Wolfsburg native most recently shot the novel adaptation “Conclave” in Rome with Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. The thriller about the sudden death of a pope and the election of a successor is scheduled to hit theaters in November.

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