The Coen brothers will make a TV series

Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen are working on the first television series in their careers, Variety reports. It will be an anthology called The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

The Coens wrote the script for the series and will direct it. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is set in the Old West of the United States.

The series is produced by Annapurna Television in addition to the Coens' Mike Zoss Productions.

It is unknown when or how exactly The Ballad of Buster Scruggs will be released.

According to Variety, the creators are considering the possibility of releasing the series in theaters. There is no information about the details of this decision.

• The Coen brothers have made 17 feature films. The latest one for now is “Long Live Caesar!” (2016). In 2014, they became producers of the TV series Fargo, based on their 1996 film of the same name.