Colin Farrell rolls the dice with Netflix for next film
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Colin Farrell is to star in Netflix’s The Ballad of a Small Player, the new film from Edward Berger, the director of the Oscar-winning All Quiet on the Western Front.
US entertainment trade publication Deadline, which first reported the news, says The Ballad of a Small Player is based on the Lawrence Osborne book of the same name.
Deadline says the film tells the story of “a high-stakes gambler who decides to lay low in Macau after his past and debts catch up with him”.
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He meets “a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation”.
Production is due to begin later this year.
Farrell is currently filming A Big Bold Beautiful Journey with co-star Margot Robbie.
He stars in the title role in the new Apple TV+ detective series Sugar, streaming now.
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