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Tom Waits in ‘Wild Horse Nine’ Justin Lubin/Searchlight Pictures The trailer for Martin McDonagh‘s Wild Horse Nine has arrived, and it features John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, and — to every music fan’s delight — Tom Waits.
The film, set in 1973, just before the Chilean coup, stars Malkovich and Rockwell as CIA agents. The trailer opens with the duo on an airplane, bickering as Malkovich asserts his seniority (“I’ve killed people in countries you can’t even spell,” he tells him). Waits, who plays Malkovich’s brother, Chris, appears around the two-minute mark.
Wild Horse Nine, out on Nov. 6, also stars Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey, and others. It marks McDonagh’s first new film since 2022’s The Banshees of Inisherin, and his second time working with Waits, after 2012’s Seven Psychopaths. “As soon as Tom pops up onscreen, there’s something iconic and mesmerizing about him,” the director told Vanity Fair on Wednesday.
