Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken Reunite With Martin McDonagh For New Film Seven Psychopaths

Tony-nominated playwright Martin McDonagh will direct a new self-penned film titled Seven Psychopaths, according to Deadline.com. The movie will star Colin Farrell (who led the cast of McDonagh's 2008 film In Bruges) as well as Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken (both of whom starred in McDonagh's 2010 Broadway play A Behanding in Spokane). No release date has been set.

Seven Pyschopaths follows a screenwriter (Farrell) who is struggling to complete his latest script as he gets drawn into the dog-napping escapades of his friends (Rockwell and Walken). When the group steals the Shih Tzu of a psychotic gangster, the screenwriter finds himself newly invigorated and ready to complete his work, if he can manage to do so before being murdered.

McDonagh earned Tony nominations for his plays The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Pillowman, The Lonesome West and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. He received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of In Bruges and won an Oscar for his 2004 short film Six Shooter.

Farrell's many film credits include Fright Night, Horrible Bosses, The New World and Minority Report.

Walken earned a Tony nomination for A Behanding in Spokane as well as James Joyce's The Dead. His other Broadway credits include Hurlyburly, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Merchant of Venice, Enemies, The Rose Tattoo and The Lion in Winter.

Rockwell made his Broadway debut in A Behanding From Spokane and has appeared off-Broadway in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Goose-pimples and Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love.

Filming for Seven Psychopaths begins this fall in Los Angeles.