There are people in Hollywood who write screenplays for a
living and actually get calls from agents about their next assignment. The practice reminds me of my own getting
calls from a self-publisher trying to get me to mount silly initiatives to mass
sell my own books.
In “Seven Psychopaths” (Martin McDonagh) Marty Faranan
(Collin Farrell) has to come up with a tight plot for his screenplay by that
name, so he needs to meet real psychopaths.
He turns to Billiy(Sam Rockwell) who makes a living kidnapping
celebrities’ dogs and collecting ransom. Billy’s crime partner is a fake
preacher Hans (Christopher Walken).
Billy and Hans steal an exotic pet (a Shih Tsu) belonging to a gangster
played by Woody Harrelson. In the meantime, Martin has penned a working script
based on “The Quaker” (Harry Dean
Stanton).
This sets up a comic bloodbath, where body parts roll in
spaghetti western style, with modern LA as the backdrop. Curiously the film is produced by a British
company (Film 4) along with Alliance Atlantis, and distributed in the US by CBS
Films and Sony.
The official site is here.
Martin finally makes his deadline.
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