'Jack of Spades' Is to Be! Despite the Rumours, the Coen Brothers’ Long-Awaited Horror Is Finally in Play
Scotland’s mist now hides the Coens’ long-awaited nightmare.
Interest in the Coens never fades, and this time it’s Jack of Spades making headlines. Talk of delays proved false — Joel Coen has begun filming in Scotland this summer, bringing the brothers’ long-promised horror back into play.
A Reunion in the Shadows
Since The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), the brothers worked apart — Joel with The Tragedy of Macbeth, Ethan with his B-movie trilogy. Yet Ethan recently confirmed they wrote a horror script together: "It’s a horror movie that I hope we get made at some point." Who wouldn’t want their blend of dark humour and dread on full display?
What’s in the Cards
Josh O’Connor leads the Scottish shoot, a setting ripe with fog and folklore. While Ethan continues Honey Don’t! and the upcoming Go, Beavers!, Joel is quietly dealing us his own nightmare card. Don’t you agree it already feels like an event?
Even the New York Times listed four Coen films among the century’s greatest, prompting Ethan to joke: "What was wrong with the other 15?" That wit — paired with their trademark shadows — is why a Coen horror feels inevitable, and irresistible, I guess.
