Netflix's 'The Ballad of a Small Player' Casts Tilda Swinton in Adaptation

This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. The Big Picture Tilda Swinton will be singing The Ballad of a Small Player for Netflix. The actor joins Colin Farrell in the new film, the latest from All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger. Deadline reports that the Macau-set film is slated to begin production in Asia this summer.

Based on the 2014 Lawrence Osborne novel of the same name, The Ballad of a Small Player will star Farrell as a gambler and con man who flees the UK for the Chinese gambling mecca Macau. There, he finds a kindred spirit who he believes may be his salvation. Swinton's role is currently being kept under wraps, as is any additional casting. This will be Berger's second English-language feature after he gained worldwide acclaim for his WWI drama All Quiet on the Western Front.

What is Tilda Swinton Working On Now? Close The ever-busy Swinton has a number of projects in the works after starring in Three Thousand Years of Longing, Pinocchio, and The Killer in recent years. Swinton can currently be seen in Julio Torres' directorial debut, Problemista, which was released by A24 earlier this year.

The Ballad of a Small Player was written by Rowan Joffe, writer of 28 Weeks Later, The American, and The Informer. It will be produced by Mike Goodridge via Good Chaos, Berger via Nine Hours, and Matthew James Wilkinson for Stigma Films. It is part of Berger's overall deal with Netflix; his All Quiet on the Western Front was a massive hit for the streamer, becoming one of its most-streamed non-English-language films of all time.

The Ballad of a Small Player is slated to begin filming in Asia this summer; no release date has yet been set. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

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