Any day John Michael McDonagh gets to work on a film set is a good day in our book so it’s a thrill to share a first look at the Calvary and The Guard man’s latest project, War On Everyone, as he cranks the cameras in New Mexico. Click on the image below for a closer look. No word yet on how this one will compare tonally with the balance of the comedic and the melancholy in his previous work. It’s billed as a black action-comedy that sees Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård’s bent cops (pictured above) looking to blackmail and generally stitch up all the felons they cross paths with. Unluckily for them, they run up against someone who’s even more dangerous and unscrupulous than they are. "Or is he?", asks the synopsis intriguingly.
McDonagh has also been doing a spot of HR on the film, signing up Divergent’s Theo James for an unspecified role. “It gives me great pleasure to declare War on Everyone with my fellow combatants, Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård,” says the writer/director. "We look forward to the battles ahead, and we will go on with a spirit that fears nothing. That’s Homer, by the way.”
Also aboard are Tessa Thompson, Caleb Landry Jones, Paul Reiser, Spectre’s Stephanie Sigman and McDonagh’s old The Guard cohort David Wilmot. No Brendan Gleeson, alas, but you can’t have it all.
With a distribution deals already in place and the shoot underway in Albuquerque, expect to see this one early next year.