Nation star Zach Bryan recruited Western movie legend Matthew McConaughey for his “9 Ball” music video, launched on Monday.
The video, directed by Matthew Dillon Cohen, tells the story of a boy whose father is a playing addict. McConaughey performs a pool shark who brings his younger son to the bar whereas he bets money towards his opponent, performed by Scott Shepherd.
In an alternate timeline, Tye Sheridan performs an older model of McConaughey’s son, who grows as much as play billiards in the identical pool corridor as his father. The narratives soar backwards and forwards from one another, depicting the impact of the daddy’s playing on the son, and ends with a flashback shot of McConaughey carrying the younger boy out of the bar after a bar combat.
“9 Ball” comes from Bryan’s EP Boys of Religion, which he launched in September 2023. On the Grammy Awards final Sunday, the singer took residence greatest nation duo efficiency for “I Keep in mind Every part.” He was additionally nominated for greatest nation album (Zach Bryan) and greatest nation tune (“I Keep in mind Every part”).
McConaughey’s half within the movie comes on the heels of reports that he’s in talks to land his subsequent position for the large display screen, Apple Unique Movies’ The Misplaced Bus, with Paul Greengrass already circling.
Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown) wrote the script for The Misplaced Bus, which is based mostly on Lizzie Johnson’s 2021 e book about California’s 2018 Camp Fireplace, Paradise: One City’s Wrestle to Survive an American Wildfire. The movie follows bus driver Kevin McKay and trainer Mary Ludwig, who helped evacuate a faculty bus full of scholars.