The writer/director of In Bruges will reteam with Colin Farrell, along with Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken for his sophomore film effort, entitled “Seven Psychopaths“.

Martin McDonagh (pictured above), the award winning Irish playwright behind The Pillowman and the Oscar winning shot film Six Shooter, made his feature film debut in 2008 with In Bruges, an extraordinarily black dramedy about two hit-men (played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, the latter of whom picked up a Golden Globe for his efforts) on vacation in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges.

His follow-up film will, according to Variety, revolve around “a screenwriter (Farrell) struggling for inspiration for his script, “Seven Psychopaths,” who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (Rockwell and Walken). Things take a turn for the worse when a gangster’s (Rourke) mutt goes missing.”

No word on what the tone of the film will be as of yet, although from the sound of things it’ll share quite a bit in common with the rest of his work; a combination of morbid and absurdist comedy with the occasional heavy dramatic element…and plenty of foul language. His most recent play, A Behanding in Spokane, was recently performed on Broadway with Rockwell and Walken in the cast, so like Farrell they’ll be no stranger to delivering the playwrights dialogue. I recently saw Behanding performed at the Melbourne Theatre Company (not with the same cast, unfortunately), and while it wasn’t as emotionally resonant as In Bruges, it was certainly just as funny, and makes me all the more interested in McDonagh’s next film.

Thoughts, anyone? What’d you think of In Bruges? Excited to see such McDonagh working with such a talented cast?