Colin Farrell To Star In Edward Berger’s ‘The Ballad Of A Small Player’ For Netflix

Justin Kroll
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EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell continues to build on a busy dance card as the Oscar-nominated actor is set to star in Netflix’s The Ballad of a Small Player, with Edward Berger directing. Rowan Joffe will adapt the script that is is based on the novel by Lawrence Osborne. Mike Goodridge will produce through his Good Chaos banner along with Berger for his Nine Hours banner as well as Matthew James Wilkinson.

The story follows a high-stakes gambler who decides to lay low in Macau after his past and debts catch up with him. Along the way he encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation. Production is expected to start later this year.

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The film marks the first project under Berger’s creative partnership and global first-look film deal with Netflix, via his company Nine Hours.

Farrell has worked of late on both on the big and small screens with his Apple noir series Sugar recently premiering on the streamer. Later this year, he has the anticipated Batman Max series The Penguin bowing in which he reprises his role as Gotham City’s most infamous gangster.

He is currently filming the Sony and Imperative drama A Big Bold Beautiful Journey opposite Margot Robbie.

Best known for his Oscar-winning work on Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Berger’s follow-up film Conclave bows in November.

Farrell is repped by CAA, managers Ilene Feldman and Claudine Farrell, and attorney Steve Warren. Berger is repped by CAA and Range Media Partners.

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