While The Guard director John Michael McDonagh has re-located from the West of Ireland to New Mexico for new film War on Everyone, the first trailer shows that his trademark humour has survived the Atlantic crossing.
Billed as a "jet black comedy", War on Everyone tells the story of Terry Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård) and Bob Bolaño (Michael Peña), two corrupt Albuquerque cops who appear to have picked the wrong person to victimise.
More importantly it seems, McDonagh is out to break the record for on screen F-bombs this time round - if there's any doubt just check out that 'disclaimer' at the start.
The cast of the film also includes Theo James (the Divergent series), Tessa Thompson (Creed), Paul Reiser (Mad About You) and Irish actor David Wilmot, who appeared in McDonagh's Calvary and The Guard.
Badges? They don't need no stinkin' badges!
Wilmot gets to feature prominently in the trailer after getting himself a knee where no man should during an encounter with our anti-hero cops.
Ouch! David Wilmot on the receiving end in War on Everyone
In an interview with trade publication the Hollywood Reporter in February, McDonagh said that earlier drafts of War on Everyone's screenplay were set in London and Dublin but did not feel right in terms of tone or visuals.
"It was only when I latched on to the New Mexico location that my vision for the movie started to cohere," the London-Irish filmmaker said. "It's also nice to wake up in sunlight and not get rained on all the time. Plus, I like burritos."
John Michael McDonagh - Lover of burritos and decent weather
When asked if New Mexico was anything like the rural settings of The Guard and Calvary, McDonagh replied: "I found Albuquerque to be visually very interesting, lots of idiosyncratic locations. The people there were as welcoming to us as the people in the West of Ireland. As regards to the comedy elements and characters, these are all figments of my imagination and so can be found at any location I arrive at."
Having once described the prologue in Calvary, where Brendan Gleeson's character is told he has seven days to live, as his version of a "Michael Bay pre-credit opening sequence", McDonagh told the Hollywood Reporter that he is upping the ante in War on Everyone.
"I have an automobile assault on a strip club that turns into an extended chase sequence across Albuquerque," he revealed. "However, it involves a Mariachi band, a stripper with a python and a very large dude on a mobility scooter. I don't think Michael Bay has ever attempted that, except maybe in Pain & Gain. Which was a good film, by the way."
War on Everyone will be released in cinemas on September 30.
