Tilda Swinton joins Colin Farrell in Edward Berger's The Ballad of a Small Player

Actor Tilda Swinton is joining hands with Colin Farrel in The Ballad of a Small Player for Netflix. Director Edward Berger, best known for his 2022 critically-acclaimed film All Quiet on the Western Front is helming the project.

Based on the 2014 Lawrence Osborne novel of the same name, The Ballad of a Small Player will star Farrell as a gambler and con man who flees the UK and heads to Macau. The official logline reads, "When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation." Rowan Joffe is adapting the script for the big screen.

Tilda Swinton's role is currently kept under wraps. Details of other cast members hasn't been revealed yet.

Swinton recently starred in Julio Torres' directorial debut, Problemista which was released earlier this year. Up next, she has a number of projects in the works, including Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language feature, The Room Next Door, which she will star in with Julianne Moore and John Turturro and Joshua Oppenheimer's apocalyptic musical The End.

Farrell, known for his work in The Banshees of Inisherin, he has the much-anticipated Batman Max series The Penguin. He is also currently shooting for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey opposite Margot Robbie.

Mike Goodridge is producing The Ballad of a Small Player through his Good Chaos banner along with Berger for his Nine Hours banner. Matthew James Wilkinson's Stigma Films is onboard the project as the producer as well.