Tilda Swinton and Colin Farrell to star in new drama from All Quiet on the Western Front director

Tilda Swinton and Colin Farrell are set to star in The Ballad of a Small Player, a new drama from All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger.

Per Deadline, the story “follows a high-stakes gambler who decides to lay low in Macau after his past and debts catch up with him. Along the way he encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.” Berger directs from a screenplay by Rown Joffee (Locked In, Tin Star) who is adapting the novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne. The best-selling novel is described as being “part ghost story and part psychological thriller.”