Tilda Swinton Joins Colin Farrell in Edward Berger's 'The Ballad of a Small Player' for Netflix

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Tilda Swinton Joins Colin Farrell in Edward Bergers The Ballad of a Small Player for Netflix

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30 April 2024

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Cast: Tilda Swinton (The Killer) as Cynthia Blithe, joining the previously announced Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Director: Edward Berger (All Quiet On The Western Front)

Writer: Rowan Joffe, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne

Producers: Mike Goodridge for Good Chaos, Edward Berger for Nine Hours, Matthew James Wilkinson for Stigma Films

Logline: When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation

The Ballad of a Small Player will shoot on location in Asia in Summer 2024

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About Good Chaos

Good Chaos is a UK based production outfit with credits including Triangle Of Sadness, Sisu, this year's Berlin prizewinner Some Rain Must Fall, Baltasar Kormakur's upcoming Touch for Focus Features as well as Santosh, which is playing in Un Certain Regard in Cannes this year.

About Nine Hours

Nine Hours is an independent global Film & TV production label founded by Oscar and BAFTA-winning director Edward Berger with partner Luke Rivett (Corner Office, Berlin Station) and partner Jeanne Tremsal (So Long Daddy, See you in Hell). Nine Hours is based in Berlin and Los Angeles.

Prior to founding Nine Hours, Edward Berger directed the WWI epic, All Quiet on the Western Front, which received a leading 14 nominations at the 76th British Academy Film Awards, winning seven, including Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director as well as nine nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and winning four, including for Best International Feature and Best Cinematography.

His most recent film is Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, to be released in November 2024 by Focus Features.

Tilda representation: Hamilton Hodell, CAA and Peikoff Mahan

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