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 bounce forwards and backwards 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 struggle.
“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 dwelling greatest nation duo efficiency for “I Bear in mind The whole lot.” He was additionally nominated for greatest nation album (Zach Bryan) and greatest nation track (“I Bear in mind The whole lot”).
McConaughey’s half within the movie comes on the heels of stories that he’s in talks to land his subsequent function for the large display, Apple Authentic 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 Hearth, Paradise: One City’s Battle to Survive an American Wildfire. The movie follows bus driver Kevin McKay and instructor Mary Ludwig, who helped evacuate a college bus full of scholars.
