Telluride: The ‘Wild Horse Nine’ Team on Blending Genres, Shooting on Location and John Malkovich’s Oscar Buzz

No movie has popped at this year’s fall film festivals more than Wild Horse Nine, Martin McDonagh’s dramedy about a pair of bickering CIA agents, played by John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, who visit Chile’s Easter Island ahead of the 1973 coup that ousted that nation’s democratically elected president. Indeed, the film, which Searchlight will release in the U.S. on Nov. 6, received a 14-minute standing ovation following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, and then played through the roof at its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Friday. On Saturday, following another tremendously received…