Jacques Audiard to Make English-language debut with THE SISTERS BROTHERS

In an interview yesterday with RTL Radio, director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet) revealed that his next project will be an adaptation of the Patrick deWitt novel The Sisters Brothers, a darkly comedic Western chronicling the misadventures of two hired guns. He also stated that John C. Reilly, who acquired the writes to the story several years ago, has been attached to produce and star in the film. 

This will mark Audiard’s English-language debut, and I couldn’t be happier with this announcement.

Here’s the Amazon synopsis of the novel:

Patrick deWitt, a young writer whose “stop-you-in-your-tracks writing has snuck up on the world” (Los Angeles Times), brings us The Sisters Brothers, a darkly comic, outrageously inventive novel that offers readers a decidedly off-center view of the Wild, Wild West.  Set against the back-drop of the great California Gold Rush, this odd and wonderful tour de force at once honors and reshapes the traditional western while chronicling the picaresque misadventures of two hired guns, the fabled Sisters brothers. The most original western since the Coen Brothers re-interpreted True Grit—you’ve never met anyone quite like The Sisters Brothers.

Thanks to Collider for bringing this news to our attention.