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George Clooney Tries To Explain 'Insane' Upcoming Comedies From The Coen
'Burn After Reading,' 'Suburbicon' are more in the vein of 'Big Lebowski' than 'No Country for Old Men,' stars describe.
By Shawn Adler
After spending a year with "No Country for Old Men," a serious, gut-wrenching drama that won nearly every conceivable award on the planet, you'd perhaps forgive the Coen brothers if they looked for a little escapism in their follow-up features, "Burn After Reading" and "Suburbicon."
Forget escapism, laughed several "Burn" co-stars: The Coens have finally gone off the friggin' deep end.
"I don't even understand what it is," star George Clooney chuckled of the "Burn" plot. "We have no idea what we've done. The only thing I feel confident about is, as bad and goofy and dim as I am in the movie, [Brad] Pitt might be dimmer. And that makes me know I have a little cover."
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George Clooney reports he's happily completed his "trilogy of idiots" for the Coen Bros. He's referring to Burn After Reading, a return to screwball comedy for the filmmaking siblings after the blood-soaked nihilism of their No Country for Old Men. Opening in early September, it stars Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand and John Malkovich and concerns top-secret CIA documents that fall into the clutches of a personal trainer played by Pitt. Clooney previously worked with the Coens on Oh Brother Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty. "I am over head and shoulders over the other idiots I've played ... The only thing that makes me feel better is that Brad is being a bigger idiot than I am in it -- so that makes me feel safe." (Source)
Crews prepping feverishly for Clooney premiere - By OWEN McNEILL, Staff Writer -Work was progressing at a frenetic pace all day Friday inside and outside the Washington Opera Theatre in downtown Maysville as crews were preparing for the premiere of George Clooney's new movie "Leatherheads." (Read more offsite at the source)
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"He's the kiss of death. If you're playing cards and he comes up behind you, even brushes your shoulder, you're done. Just pack in your cards and go home. I've never seen a jinx like that in my life." Brad Pitt on pal George Clooney's gambling curse.
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Joel added: "We're not all that conscious of pressure about each new film trying to outdo the rest. We're really quite fatalistic about that kind of thing. For us, the real challenge is simply to keep working, and to keep trying different kinds of things. We're almost ready to shoot our next movie about a bunch of numbskulls in Washington which will star George Clooney."
George Clooney Film "Burn After Reading"
Now Casting for August
"Burn After Reading", a major new film from Focus Features and Universal Pictures, is now casting many roles for production in New York and Washington D.C. starting this August. With the Coen Brothers onboard as directors, this dark comedy will be about a former CIA agent who writes his memoirs after being fired. But the disc containing his memoirs is accidentally left in a gym locker room, and two gym employees try to sell the valuable information to the highest bidder. "Burn After Reading" will star George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Frances McDormand. It was written and will be directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, who will also produce. The film is also being produced by Tim Bevan, Robert Graf, and Eric Fellner for Working Title Films and Focus Features in association with Universal Pictures.
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Clooney goes into full spook mode
9 May 2007
The Guardian
Has George Clooney (right) got the CIA under his skin? It seems starring in Syriana - Stephen Gaghan's 2005 film about oil, corruption, the US and the Middle East - just wasn't enough. The greying heartthrob has just announced that he has two more films about the US secret service in the pipeline.
Burn After Reading, from Joel and Ethan Coen, is a dark comedy about a CIA agent who loses his memoirs. It will be the actor's third outing with the brothers, after O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty. Also starring are John Malkovich, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand, wife of Joel Coen.
The second project is one Clooney will co-write and possibly star in. Called Escape from Tehran, it will be based on the true story of the CIA creating a fake movie in order to rescue US citizens in the 1980 Iran hostage crisis. As Clooney says: "It is not merely your right but your duty to question your government."
Malkovich, 'Burn' make good match
By Tatiana Siegel
May 4, 2007
John Malkovich is in negotiations to star opposite George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" for Focus Features and Working Title Films.
The dark screwball comedy centers on Ozzie Cox (Malkovich), a former CIA agent who loses the disc of the memoir he is writing. McDormand will play Cox's philandering wife. Clooney is set to play an assassin. Because the screenplay is being kept under wraps, it is unclear what Pitt's character will be.
Shooting is scheduled to begin in August.
Joel and Ethan Coen penned the screenplay, and the former will direct the contemporary-set project.
Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing alongside the Coens.
Malkovich, whose upcoming film credits include "Beowulf" and "The Great Buck Howard," is a two-time Oscar nominee for "In the Line of Fire" and "Places in the Heart." "Burn" would mark his first collaboration with the Coens.
He is repped by Endeavor and manager Charles Finch.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
The brothers have signed a two-picture deal with Focus Features and Working Title Films and will begin shooting the first, "Burn After Reading," this summer. "Burn," which stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand, is a dark spy comedy about a CIA man who loses the disc of a book he's writing. Trouble is, the manuscript is filled with information vital to national security. (Deseret Morning News)
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Pitt, Clooney Feel the Burn
E! Online
Forget Angelina Jolie, the person Brad Pitt can't seem to live without is George Clooney. At least on the big screen. The Ocean's Thirteen duo has teamed up yet again, this time for Burn After Reading, a black comedy—what else?—from the Coen brothers.
Details of the story are scarce at best, though Pitt's publicist Cindy Guagenti confirmed to E! News that the film will be set in the world of the CIA and follows an agent who loses a disc containing a tell-all book he's been writing about his work and life. Clooney will play the role of the agent, but it's unknown exactly how Pitt will factor into the film. Also on board is frequent Coen muse and director Joel Coen's wife, Frances McDormand.
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Pitt, Clooney 'Burn' brightly
Brad Pitt will reunite with George Clooney for the Coen Brothers' "Burn After Reading." The film, set up at Working Title Films, has also added frequent Coen collaborator (and wife of Joel Coen) Frances McDormand. ... [Offsite]
Pitt, Clooney 'Burn' Brightly
McDormand will also star Brad Pitt will reunite with George Clooney for the Coen Brothers' "Burn After Reading." ... [Offsite]
Brad Pitt to star with Clooney in Coen brothers' movie Brad Pitt will reunite with "Ocean's 13" co-star George Clooney in the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, it was reported Friday.... [Offsite]
Frances McDormand (Burn After Reading). ...McDormand will then head to New York to star opposite George Clooney in "Burn After Reading," a dark comedy about the CIA that will be directed and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. Film is also being produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner's Working Title. The film will mark McDormand's fifth film with the Coens (she's married to Joel). Aside from her Oscar-winning turn in "Fargo," McDormand starred in "Raising Arizona," "Miller's Crossing" and "The Man Who Wasn't There." (Thanks to Clooney Network)
Universal-based Working Title, which produced U's "United 93," is producing the next George Clooney and Joel and Ethan Coen collaboration, "Burn After Reading," for Focus Features. (Variety)
"I don't like to share my personal life...it wouldn't be personal if I shared it." - George Clooney
Clooney, Coens reunite for third movie
By Anne Thompson
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - George Clooney is reteaming with filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen for their third film together, "Burn After Reading," a spy caper about a CIA agent who loses the disc of the book he is writing.
The film will mark a more comedic take on the world of spooks than Clooney's recent Oscar-winning dramatic turn in "Syriana." Clooney will play a killer. Clooney and the Coens previously worked together on 2000's "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and 2003's "Intolerable Cruelty."
Clooney Back With The Coens
By Josh Tyler:
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George Clooney's collaboration with the Coen brothers has been hit and miss so far. In O Brother Where Art Thou they had a hit, in Intolerable Cruelty that had a movie that most people have probably already forgotten exists. According to Production Weekly they'll try working together for a third time on a movie called Burn After Reading. The Coens are writing their script based on a book called "Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors and Secret Intelligence" by Admiral Stansfield Turner. Stansfield served as the head of the CIA from 1977 to 1981, so he knows a little something about secret organizations. His book is a personal recollection of his time working under President Jimmy Carter. The movie will be nothing of the sort, instead it's a caper movie about a CIA guy who's writing a book and loses the disc it's written on. Clooney won't play the CIA writer, but instead he'll be some sort of killer. In a few weeks you can catch Clooney in his latest black and white movie The Good German. Next year he's slated to appear in Ocean's 13 and Michael Clayton, both of which he's already finished filming. Leatherheads is his next project, and once that finishes he'll start on Burn After Reading, probably in August. (Cinema Blend)
Clooney ignites Coen Bros. reunion
OCTOBER 22, 2006 - 11:49 AMGeorge Clooney will reunite with Joel Coen & Ethan Coen on “Burn After Reading,” their third collaboration together after “Intolerable Cruelty” & “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”. The Coen Bros. script is loosely based on the novel “Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence,” by Admiral Stansfield Turner, who served as director of the CIA from 1977 to 1981. The contemporary East Coast caper, is about a C.I.A. guy who’s writing a book and he loses the disc. Clooney’s character is not the C.I.A. guy, but a guy that goes around killing people. Production is scheduled to begin in August, after he wraps filming on “Leatherheads,” which starts shooting early next spring. (Prod Weekly)
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