Netflix releases trailer for Coen Brothers movie ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’

James Franco in “The Ballad of Buster
Scruggs.”
Netflix

• Netflix has released the first trailer for its
  anticipated original film from the Coen Brothers, “The Ballad
  of Buster Scruggs.”
• The Western film was originally conceived as a
  six-episode Netflix original miniseries, but the Coens cut it
  together into one feature film and premiered it at the Venice
  Film Festival in August. 
• 
  “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” debuts on Netflix
  and in select theaters on November 16.
  

Netflix on Wednesday released the first trailer for its
anticipated original film from the Coen Brothers, “The Ballad of
Buster Scruggs.”

Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, the Western film
features an anthology of stories, and was originally conceived as
a six-episode miniseries. The Coens reportedly “decided
instead to jam the episodes” into one feature film
before screening it at the Venice Film Festival in August.

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” stars James Franco, Liam Neeson,
Zoe Kazan, Tim Blake Nelson, and Tom Waits in an ensemble cast.

The Coens
told reporters at Venice that the material for the film
originated from stories they wrote over a period of 25
years. 

“We would write these short stories and not really know
what to do with them and put them in a drawer,” Joel Coen said.
“Then we decided to make them all together.”

The film has a 94%
“fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes from the 17 critics who saw
it in Venice. 

“Richly entertaining and blackly funny but told with
sincerity and heart, the half-dozen Western tales packed into
‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ show the Coen brothers loading up
their six-shooter and firing barely a blank,” Philip De
Semlyen wrote in
a review for Time Out. 

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” debuts on Netflix and in
select theaters on November 16.

Watch the trailer below: