It's a play that's obsessed with time.

The word time is used maybe 40 times in the text.

And it starts with a when, and time marking things are in almost every speech in soliloquy.

And it's about the obsession with what's going to happen after you die.

Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In today's episode, the classic Scottish play gets a dark new life and director Joel Cohen's drama, The Tragedy of McVeth.

Based on the timeless work by William Shakespeare, the film reweeds the tale of the power-hungry Thane of Cawdor, who sets his sights on the Scottish throne after receiving a prophecy from three witches and must deal with the aftermath of his treachery.

In addition to the tragedy of Macbeth, Mr. Cohen's extensive directorial credits include the feature

films, Intolerable Cruelty, O Brother Where Art Thou, the Big Lobowski, and the DGA Award nominated Fargo.

Alongside his brother Ethan, Mr. Cohen also directed the features The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,

Inside Lewin Davis, True Grit, and the DGA Award winning No Country for Old Men.

Following a recent screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Mr. Cohen

shares insight into the making of the tragedy of Macbeth with fellow director Guillermo

del Toro.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Thank you for coming.

Very happy to be here.

Yes, so am I.

And, you know, one of the things that I would love to start by is asking, I mean,

there's a formidable thing, which is, there's a small line

between your first movie and this, from Blood Simple to Macbeth.

Yeah.

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