Martin McDonagh Says Present Day Parallels to 1970s CIA Movie ‘Wild Horse Nine’ Weren’t Deliberate: ‘Things Are Getting Stupider’
Venice Film Festival: "When I wrote the film and when we made it, it was to talk about 1973 and Chile," the Oscar-winning writer-director says The post Martin McDonagh Says Present Day Parallels to 1970s CIA Movie ‘Wild Horse Nine’ Weren’t Deliberate: ‘Things Are Getting Stupider’ appeared first on TheWrap .
Oscar-winning director Martin McDonagh, known for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and "Banshees of Inisherin," spoke about his latest film "Wild Horse Nine" at the Venice Film Festival. The movie is set in 1973, during the CIA's involvement in Chile, and features Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich as CIA agents on a mission to Easter Island.
McDonagh noted that while he initially intended to address the events of 1973, the film's themes now seem to resonate with today's geopolitical landscape. He attributed this unintentional connection to his open-mindedness towards the subject matter, and expressed fascination in seeing how audiences respond to a historical piece with modern relevance.
McDonagh remarked on the modern CIA's lack of covert operations and deemed their tactics "stupider and stupider," in contrast to the intelligence used by CIA agents in the 1970s.
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