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File this one under rumour for the time being but the California Chronicle reckons that past Coen brothers stars Brad Pitt and George Clooney are going to to Duke (pun intended) it out for the John Wayne role in the Coen’s forthcoming remake/adaptation of True Grit.
Thanks to Bunnie for pointing this out.
I went to see Tropic Thunder last week (I though it was great but got a bit soggy in the middle, incidentally it was co-written by one Etan Coen- not to be confused with Ethan Coen) and I was getting seated just as a Burn After Reading trailer began playing and I noticed immediately that it was different than the one I was familiar with. One scene in particular stood out which shows clearly (and graphically) what Harry (George Clooney) has been making in his basement, so if you don’t want to see this hilarious reveal till you see the movie- do not watch the trailer. You can see this trailer (Trailer 2) over at the official UK Burn After Reading site.
Great stuff- just stumbled across these…
I’m not claiming to know anything about marketing but, if I were in charge of the PR for a movie, I’d try my best to ensure that this kind of thing was sent directly to the people in a good position to show them to a lot of people at no cost, say… fan websites for example. I don’t know why I have to accidentally find them on the internet…
Thanks to Amy who commented on an earlier post we can now all watch this YouTube find. Basically it’s a 10 minute clip of Tilda Swinton on Letterman where she discusses her hometown of Nairn in Scotland (where she recently held her film festival), her twin kids, visiting with George Clooney and, of course, Burn After Reading which, to be honest, is barely touched upon but does show a great clip with her and Malkovich which I’d not seen before (skip to 6 mins if that’s all you’re interested in).
Click the here to watch an interview (3:46) with Tilda Swinton where she discusses Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers, what it’s like to work with George Clooney and her sympathy for film festival organisers. She describes her character, Katie Cox, amusingly as “Basil Fawlty in a Miss Krabappel from The Simpsons hair-do”.
The New York Times has an article on the Coen brothers. It’s not particularly deep- it touches on Burn After Reading and A Serious Man and has snippets of an interview. The article contains two new pics from Burn After Reading…
Err, they want to make a Hercules movie with Clooney? WOW! That would be something I’m sure!
Thanks to Camille, Blake and David for pinging me an email.
Below is a very brief clip from the Burn After Reading press conference from the Venice Film Festival. Unfortunatley it focuses on the stooopid stuff George Clooney and Brad Pitt are always asked and the frankly insane questioning by one female reporter in particular. Still, great come back from Clooney…
Here’s another, longer, clip with a bit of Joel Coen at the end suggesting they could just as easily have a made a “dog movie” or an “outer space movie”…
Another one. This time Clooney cheekily suggests that the Coens are not actually brothers and that the actors were chosen because they were the cheapest the Coens could find. Annnnd the crazy woman is back too…
At the risk of going a bit Perez Hilton, click here if you feel there’s enough of a celebrity stalker lurking inside you and you can see a bunch of pics of George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton at a photo call for the opening of the Venice Film Festival where, I don’t think I need to remind you, Burn After Reading is having its WORLD PREMIERE tonight!
EDIT: Here’s a couple of pics from the shoot with the boys Coen in ‘em- don’t Joel and Ethan look happy to be there 
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Left to right: Joel Coen, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, some guy and Ethan Coen
Ethan with Joel doing his best Leon impression…
The more I see of this the more I want to see!
Follow this link right here, or watch them below to see two character trailers for Burn After Reading. One focusing on Brad Pitt’s Chad Feldheimer, the other on George Clooney’s Harry Pfarrer. Funny as hell. Go! Go now, whatchoo waiting for?
Thanks to Blake for the tip.
I’ve stumbled upon some new Burn After Reading promotion photographs. You can see them in the movie’s multimedia page or right here;
