{
  "id": 2352096,
  "title": "Woody Harrelson Ready to Direct Another Live Film, Compares Jason Bateman’s ‘The Cackling of the Dodos’ to Martin McDonagh and the Coen Brothers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/woody-harrelson-ready-to-direct-another-live-film-compares-jason",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T09:22:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/woody-harrelson-jason-bateman-martin-mcdonagh-coen-brothers-1236838548/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Almost a decade after taking on an unusually challenging directorial debut with the world’s first live-streamed feature film in “Lost in London,” Woody Harrelson is finally ready to direct again. The actor revealed his desire to be back behind a camera, as well as his latest creative venture as a budding stand-up comic, while at […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}