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‘Wild Horse Nine’ follows CIA agents on Easter Island in 1973
Wild Horse Nine stars John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA agents Chris and Lee.
In the film, the longtime partners travel from Santiago, Chile, to Easter Island in 1973.
Their trip takes place shortly before a military coup is set to change Chile’s government.
Chris, who has cancer, is becoming less careful about revealing that the men work for the CIA.
Their boss asks Lee to find out what Chris plans to include in a memoir, including any details about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The film uses the agents’ troubled friendship and CIA past to mix dark comedy with drama and a spy-thriller plot.
The JFK connection is presented as a conspiracy theory within the story, not as established fact.
Martin McDonagh’s film “Wild Horse Nine” follows CIA agents Chris and Lee on a trip from Santiago, Chile, to Easter Island in 1973.
John Malkovich plays Chris, and Sam Rockwell plays Lee, his longtime partner.
Their trip takes place shortly before Chile’s military coup, and the agents are involved in efforts to destabilize the government.
Chris’s cancer, his plans to write a memoir and his growing willingness to talk create tension between the partners.
The film combines dark comedy and drama, with the pair’s relationship at its centre.
- Who
- CIA agents Chris and Lee, played by John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell.
- What
- They travel to Easter Island shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup. Chris’s relationship with two students and his plans to write a memoir complicate the trip.
- When
- 1973, shortly before the Chilean coup.
- Where
- From Santiago, Chile, to Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui.
- Why
- Their superior, MJ, sends them to the island. The sources say the film’s story connects their mission to CIA activity in Chile.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Chris and Lee travel from Santiago to Easter Island shortly before the Chilean coup.
The film’s events anticipate the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, as described in the AP review.
- Director
- Martin McDonagh
- Chris
- Played by John Malkovich
- Lee
- Played by Sam Rockwell
- Destination
- Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui
- Setting
- 1973, before Chile’s military coup
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What people are saying
I went to Rapa Nui fifteen years ago, hoping to make it, in a way, the character of one of my films.
Its involvement in the JFK case is obviously a rumor, but I have always been fascinated by this conspiracy, so I thought it would be an interesting element to add to this story.