ARRIVALS: Martin McDonagh Takes On Tarantino With ?Seven Psychopaths?

If there's a case to be made that turning one's dark, twisted fantasies into plays and movies is good for the soul, Martin McDonagh is Exhibit A. �The platinum-haired Irishman has given the world some breathtakingly black comedy, such as his 2003 play about a child serial killer The Pillowman and, as of Friday, the slightly lighter Seven Psychopaths. But if he's nursing a tortured soul, there was very little evidence of it when I interviewed him at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.�

McDonagh, who looks like a character actor from a Bond film, laughs easily when he talks, often at his own wit. He's also cheekily confident about his writing, which he should be. His 2008 directorial debut, the hitman buddy flick In Bruges�was cinematic poetry, and his bloody but surprisingly deep follow up,�Seven Psychopaths,�easily propels him into Tarantino territory. I smell a Bond film in his future.

There's been plenty written about the plot of the movie, so I'll get right to the interview in which McDonagh talked about the unwritten film-industry rule that it's okay to kill women but not pets in movies, his plans to take a break from psychopaths in the near future and why the next project we see from him will likely be another play.

Movieline: What a cast you have. �Were they hard to line up? �

McDonagh: No, strangely I knew four of the boys from before. Obviously, I know Colin [Farrell], and Sam [Rockwell] and Chris [Walken] and I did a play two, three years ago in New York, A Behanding in Spokane. �Actually, I knew Sam for about five years before we did that. Woody, strangely, I?ve known for about nine or 10 years because he?s a big theater fan. We…

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