Colin Farrell attends the Headline Gala screening of Netflix’s ‘Ballad of a Small Participant’ through the 69th BFI London Movie Pageant at The Royal Pageant Corridor on October ninth, 2025 in London, England. Picture by StillMoving.Internet for Netflix.
Preview:
- Colin Farrell is enjoying a vengeful priest in ‘Ordained.’
- ‘John Wick’s Derek Kolstad tailored the script from a forthcoming comedian title.
- Joe and Anthony Russo will produce.
Can a film the place a priest delivers a contact of the ol’ ultraviolence be thought of “religion primarily based”? We’re unsure the audience for motion pictures with that descriptor would agree, nevertheless it makes us chuckle, nonetheless.
In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, Colin Farrell (‘The Banshees of Inisherin’) can be placing that notion to the check as he performs a priest up in opposition to criminals in a brand new film referred to as ‘Ordained.’
Joe and Anthony Russo (‘Avengers: Endgame’) are connected to provide by way of their AGBO firm and ‘John Wick’ veteran Derek Kolstad is aboard to write down the script.
This one doesn’t have a studio (or streaming) residence but, nevertheless it has already generated loads of curiosity.
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What’s the story of ‘Ordained’?
Colin Farrell in ‘Ballad of a Small Participant’. Picture: Netflix. Netflix. © 2024.
‘Ordained’ relies on an upcoming comedian guide by writer Unhealthy Concept, created by author Robert Venditti, illustrator Trevor Hairsine and colorist Dave Stewart.
Farrell will star as Father Roy Craig, a priest who performs final rites on a mob boss who miraculously survives — however not earlier than confessing his crimes to the daddy.
Quickly after, Father Roy finds himself focused by hitmen, corrupt cops and gangsters — all despatched by the mob boss who desires to silence him. However Father Roy secretly has a violent previous that makes him a extra harmful goal than anybody imagines. (He does, nevertheless comply with the commandment Thou Shall Not Kill, however we’re pretty positive he’s not above brutal maimings!)
The place else can we see Colin Farrell?
Colin Farrell attends the Headline Gala screening of Netflix’s ‘Ballad of a Small Participant’ through the 69th BFI London Movie Pageant at The Royal Pageant Corridor on October ninth, 2025 in London, England. Picture by StillMoving.Internet for Netflix.
Farrell has had one thing of a combined 12 months to this point –– he scored loads of approval for 2024’s ‘The Batman’ TV spin-off ‘The Penguin,’ however his 2025 film work hasn’t fared so nicely –– ‘A Massive Daring Stunning Journey’ bought unhealthy evaluations and did little enterprise on the field workplace.
And even his collaboration with ‘Conclave’s Edward Berger, ‘Ballad of a Small Participant’ hasn’t discovered plenty of love with critics and appears unlikely to be successful many awards.
Nonetheless, Farrell will probably have extra luck (even when he has to get again into the prosthetics) when he reprises the function of Oz Cobb for ‘The Batman II’, which ought to lastly start capturing subsequent 12 months.
He’ll even be again for a brand new collection of Apple TV collection ‘Sugar,’ and is connected to ‘All of Us Strangers’ director Andrew Haigh’s drama ‘Stomach of the Beast.’
When will ‘Ordained’ be on screens?
This one is a case of ready to see which firm picks it up. The film can also be and not using a director for the time being (Kolstad could do it, however that is not confirmed but).
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