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The Coen Brothers were set to make World War II dramaTo The White Seain the early 2000s , and the cancel undertaking could have been another classic for the duo . The Coen Brothers made their directorial debut with 1984’sBlood Simple , a noirish thriller with a pitch - black sense of humor . Their originative partnership would generate some of the serious movies of the last three decades , includingFargo , No Country For Old Men , The Big Lebowskiand many more .
The Coen Brothers ' pic display an weird bent of tone , as they ’re able to blend in genres in way that logically should n’t work , but somehow do . They ’ve also write screenplays for moving-picture show they did n’t direct such asSuburbiconorGambit , but without their guidance , these projects never quite gel . Most directors have had famous projects that get away , such as Stanley Kubrick’sNapoleonor Tim Burton’sSuperman Lives , but the Coen Brothers take on 1993 thrillerTo The White Seais one of the most lamented .
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To The White Seawas penned by author James Dickey , who also wroteDeliverance , and is a sparse , brutish warfare story . It follows B-29 artilleryman Muldrow , who is shoot down over Tokyo and has to make his back to his native Alaska . Far from being a hero , Muldrow is present as a remorseless sociopath , who consider anyone he encounters as an enemy and even kill those who serve him . The chronicle also flashes back to Muldrow ’s time in Alaska and how his father trained him to be a cause of death .
The Coens ' script forTo The White Seahas been praise and the movie was gearing up for production , with Brad Pitt ( Once Upon A Time In Hollywood ) in the Pb . Since Muldrow does n’t speak Japanese , the character is fundamentally tacit after the first few pages , and no attempt is made to moderate him . The motion picture was set to take in 2002 but was delayed . The big budget take to bring it to life combined with the script ’s bleakness made financing difficult to put together . Pitt would head off to makeTroyinstead , a decision he has since lamented . He viewsTo The White Seaas a labor that got out , and his dashing hopes inTroyalso made him reassess how he approaches screenplays .
It feels like some of the crisp spirit of the cancel project see it ’s way into 2008’sNo Country For Old Men , but the Coen Brothers take onTo The White Seais improbable to be revive . There were rumblings of a fresh adaptation from a different creative team in 2015 , but this has yet to move ahead .
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