Deadline has released an exclusive first clip from Martin McDonagh's crime-dramedy "Wild Horse Nine", ahead of its premiere next week at the Venice Film Festival. The film reunites McDonagh with several regular collaborators and marks his first feature since the Oscar-nominated "The Banshees of Inisherin", making it one of the more anticipated titles on the festival circuit and among awards watchers ahead of its cinema release.

The story is set just before the 1973 Chilean coup and follows CIA agents Chris and Lee, played by John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, who are sent from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief MJ, played by Steve Buscemi. The plot is complicated by Chris's bond with two rebellious students, played by Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas, while the cast also includes Tom Waits and Parker Posey. Searchlight has scheduled the film for release on 6 November 2026, and it reunites McDonagh with Rockwell following their work together on the award-winning "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri".