(UTV | UNITED STATES) – Following Joel Coen branching out on his own with “The Tragedy of Macbeth” last year, his brother Ethan Coen is now doing the same for a currently untitled project at Focus Features and Working Title.
The project is said to be a new incarnation of the Russ Meyer-inspired, 1970s exploitation-esque lesbian road trip movie that Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke initially wrote in the mid-2000s titled “Drive-Away Dykes”.
That was an action-comedy romp centering on a party girl who takes a trip from Philadelphia to Miami with her buttoned-down friend. Bar cruising, a severed head, a bitter ex-girlfriend, a mystery briefcase and an evil senator all come into play.
Coen will direct the project as he and Cooke work on the script. Both will produce with Robert Graf, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Filming begins this Summer.