The Coen brothers announced that they would be working together again in the near future: “We're getting old; This should happen as soon as possible."

Joel and Ethan Coen, two of the greatest living filmmakers of the cinema, have not made a film together since 2018 and the production of "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs". They now insist that there is no rift between them and have promised to work together again soon.

According to Ambassador Arjan's report, the Coens have announced in a conversation with Ambassador Arjan that they plan to make a joint film again in the near future and they feel urgent to implement this decision. "We're getting old," Joel, 71, said in a joint interview in Lyon, where the Coen brothers are receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lumiere Festival this week. This should happen in the near future."

They are not yet ready to talk about the subject of their next film and it seems that they themselves have not yet made a final decision.

Joel said about this: "We have several ideas that we keep in what we call the library; Ideas we've written before. We have other ideas that we have thought about writing a screenplay about, but we have never had a chance to pursue them. So, we don't know yet."

Joel also dismissed reports of a rift between the two brothers, saying, "Actually, there's nothing like that at all."

However, the difference in their work paths has been clearly seen in recent years. With the movie "The Tragedy of Macbeth", Joel went to more serious cinema and adapted works, and soon he will release the movie "Jack Peak" with a new script; A work starring Josh O'Connor, Frances McDormand, Leslie Manville and Damien Lewis, scheduled for 2027.

In contrast, Ethan has made two low-budget comedies centered around female same-sex relationships with his wife, Tricia Cook; "Runaway Dolls" and "Baby, Don't!" both of which faced negative reactions from critics.

But the interesting part of the story is related to the genre of their upcoming film. The Coen brothers have said that their next collaboration probably won't be in the fantasy genre. 69-year-old Etan also mentioned the horror genre next to fantasy and said:

"This situation is definitely a strange cultural phenomenon; That mainstream movies are now mostly fantasy: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, superhero movies, and other types of fantasy. This is sad for us, because we have never been inclined towards such works."

This comment is interesting because Ethan said two years ago that the script for their collaboration was rewritten and that the film was going to be a completely scary work.

Of course, one should not expect them to make a TV series. "In order to build a collection successfully, you have to understand its structure to some extent," Joel said. But that's not what we do. "Our minds don't process stories that way."

The Coen brothers' last two films together, Hail Caesar! The 2016 product and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" were the 2018 product. Before Joel made Macbeth's Tragedy on his own, the two had not missed a single film collaboration since 1984. This 34-year collaboration brought a series of lasting works of cinema; Among them are Fargo, Barton Fink, Miller's Pass, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Inside Llewyn Davis, No Place for Old Men, The Serious Man and Burn After Reading.