While the Joel side of the Coen Brothers directorial coin mounted a prestige cinematic treatment of The Tragedy Of Macbeth for his first solo outing
While the Joel side of the Coen Brothers directorial coin mounted a prestige cinematic treatment of The Tragedy Of Macbeth for his first solo outing, brother Ethan’s first feature Coen Brother joint, Drive-Away Dolls, was an altogether wilder affair — a Margaret Qualley led lesbian road movie filled with dildos and double-crosses galore. And if the first trailer for EC’s sophomore solo feature HONEY DON’T! (his caps, not ours) is anything to go by, then a similarly riotous caper awaits. Once again starring Margaret Qualley, this time as a lesbian private investigator on the trail of a cultist played by former Captain America Chris Evans, Ethan Coen’s latest, co-written alongside longtime collaborator and wife Tricia Cooke, looks to be a murky comedy through and through, firmly of a piece with Drive-Away Dolls. Check out the trailer below;
Mysterious cop Aubrey Plaza? Check! Evans doing his Arthur Ransome shit-eating grin as a crooked pastor called Reverend Drew? Check! Liberal smatterings of blood, banter, and BDSM related paraphernalia? Check, check, and treble check! If you liked Drive-Away Dolls, then the investigations of Qualley’s Honey O’Donahue into — per the plot synopsis — ‘a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church’ will almost certainly be for you. Like that film, this looks to be another somehow both quintessentially Coen Brothers-y but also not-at-all Coen Brothers-y joint stuffed with memorable oddballs, acerbic humour, and banging needledrops. And if that’s not your vibe? Well, this probably won’t change your mind, honestly, but it will almost indubitably sear images of its stars — including Charlie Day, Bily Eichner, and Talia Ryder alongside Coen’s leading trio — into your brain that you probably won’t be forgetting any time soon.
When Empire spoke to Ethan Coen last year ahead of Drive-Away Dolls‘ release, the filmmaker teased that he and his brother were “working on writing something” — though what that something is remains to be seen as of yet. Until then, we can look forward to saying “Honey, yes!” to HONEY DON’T! when the younger Coen Brother’s latest hits cinemas later this year. *Alexa, play ‘Spooky’ by Dusty Springfield.*
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