Go, Beavers! | Ethan Coen

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In an interview with Collider, Ethan Coen teases the status of the 3rd film in his trilogy

Coen and Cooke tease their third installment, Go, Beavers!, as a female-centric genre film in development.

When we spoke for Drive-Away Dolls, Ethan, you told me, “The problem with writing two is then you're obligated to do a third because no one does two. You’ve got to do a trilogy.” So, I have to, of course, ask what the status of Go, Beavers! is?

COEN: It's in development. That's what we say when we've talked about it a little bit, but haven't written much. “It's in development.”

COOKE: We’ve written about a third.

COEN: It is a genre. It's “man and god,” except it's a lesbian movie, so it's “woman and god.” Man and nature. It's Walkabout and Deliverance, except it's all women.

[Rzzzz]

What the hell happened to Ethan?

[Shogun MacArthur]

Lesbian Deliverance? I guess I'll be looking forward to the Mélusine release.

[Foggy]

Hopefully he’ll have what ever these films are out of his system and ready to reunite with Joel after this one.

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While doing interviews for Honey Don't!, Ethan has also offered a few more tidbits about the third movie in the trilogy:

For now, Coen and Cooke are working on their third B-movie lesbian project, which has the working title of “Go, Beavers!” and centers on the reunion of a women’s college crew team.

Article also mentions something about Coen and Cooke's "nontraditional" relationship

The trilogy also has brought Coen and Cooke’s nontraditional relationship into the spotlight. The two have been married since 1993 and have raised two children. But while Coen, 67, is straight, Cooke, 60, is a lesbian. Each is in a relationship with another person.

Well, here's looking forward to the finished trilogy!

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Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke reveal details on Go, Beavers!, final film in B-movie trilogy

Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke did not initially intend to make a trilogy when they started work on what would become the first of their lesbian B-movie collection, Drive-Away Dolls.

"It was just a fun thing to write," Coen tells Entertainment Weekly in a joint interview with his film editor and screenwriter wife. But when he and Cooke completed the second film, "we had to call it a trilogy," at that point, he says. "Because who does two of anything? You gotta at least promise a third one."

"I was interested in making these genre movies through a queer lens that highlighted lesbian characters in particular, just because there aren't many," Cooke says of the collection. "It seemed like there was a gap that needed to be filled."

The second entry is Honey Don't! (in theaters Friday), which, like Drive-Away Dolls, is a crime caper that once again stars Margaret Qualley. She plays Honey O'Donahue, an old-school private detective in Bakersfield, Calif., who investigates a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church led by a charismatic reverend (played by Chris Evans). Aubrey Plaza also stars as MG Falcone, a police officer who begins a romantic relationship with the intrepid Honey.

If there's no clear throughline between the premise in the first two entries, that was by design. "Having written the first one, we said, 'Let's do something different.'" Coen says.

Consider the third and final entry even more disparate. The film will be titled Go, Beavers! and diverge from the crime caper genre of the first two films. "It's a story about a lesbian crew team coming together for their 10th year college reunion and kind of traveling down the river of life, what they experience," Cooke shares.

The script is not yet completed. "We're working on a couple of things, that being one of them," Coen notes. But, of course, they hope to cast Qualley again. "We will definitely find a role for her," Cooke says.

They also hope to once again recruit Beanie Feldstein (who played Sukie, a police officer and ex of Qualley's character Jamie in Drive-Away Dolls) and Bill Camp (who played Curlie, the shady mechanic and middleman at a rental car company in the same film) for the final entry. Camp also appears in Honey Don't! via drive-thru voice-over. "Beanie would be fun to bring back," Cooke says. "And we'll find something for Bill Camp. Hopefully Margaret will be there."

"I'd do anything with Ethan and Tricia," Qualley tells EW in a separate interview.

So much so that the star initially auditioned for the roles of both best friends Jamie and Marian, the latter played by Geraldine Viswanathan, in the first entry "because I was so eager to collaborate with them and be on their set," Qualley says. To her delight, that collaboration led to Honey O'Donahue. "I love the aspirational quality to her," she says. "She feels like an old movie star, like Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall. I watched a lot of old movies in preparation for this: The Long Goodbye, The Maltese Falcon. I appreciate her care and ease."

Qualley also lends her voice to the film's soundtrack, produced by her husband Jack Antonoff, under the musical persona Lace Manhattan with two songs: "In the Sun She Lies" and "ODDWADD." She makes it clear, however, that the alter ego was created solely for the film. Apologies to the pop girlies, but Lace Manhattan won't be releasing any more new music anytime soon; the persona was all in good fun, the star says. A possible appearance on Taylor Swift's upcoming new album? (Antonoff has collaborated with the pop star on previous songs.) "Absolutely not," Qualley quips.