The Coen news wire is positively alight! Over at AICN they’ve got a brief interview with George Clooney where he mentions the fact that he’s making a movie entitled BURN AFTER READING with the Coens in Spring!!! Now I don’t know if this is a new title for Suburbicon or what but if it isn’t that makes THREE projects the Coens and Clooney are collaborating on simultaneously. It could also be that Clooney is having us on- he is famed for his practical jokes after all. If this is true and it is shooting in Spring what effect does it have on No Country For Old Men which did look like it was shaping up to be the next Coen movie. Who knows?!??! More when I have it. Thanks to Finishdish for the link – Ain’t It Cool

More on Suburbicon, this time something from the horses mouth- Clooney: ““I’m going to do a comedy with Joel and Ethan in around a year. I really like working with them and I like doing comedy with them. They offered me a part in Suburbicon a long time ago, and since then decided they have other projects they want to work on, so I called them up and said ‘How about me taking a spin at it?’ Because it’s a really interesting, really funny, very dark comedy.” This one seems like a go picture but, as we all know, anything can happen in movie land!

Apparenlty George Clooney is looking to direct the Coen-penned, Suburbicon (or is it Suburbacon?). Clooney’s directing debut, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, showed a lot of promise and his second movie as director, Goodnight And Good Luck, is getting great reviews so this, if it comes off, could be very good indeed.

This is what I already knew about Suburbicon – from the Future Projects page;

“A murder mystery the Coens started writing shortly after Ethan moved to New York. This one still may be a going concern in some sense, as George Clooney has mentioned that it was going to be his first film with the Coens until they decided to offer him ‘O Brother Where Art Thou.‘”It was a small part and I was going to get beaten to death with a shovel. I liked it. It was a great part”. Thanks to Ciaran Cassidy for supplying the info.”

Thanks to Matt for the nod. Jo Blo

Well it seems the Coen brother’s next film is to be “Hail, Caesar”! George Clooney is to star and couldn’t resist spilling the beans. He is to play the leader of a 1920’s theatre troup who are putting on a production of “Julius Caesar”. Clooney is quoted as saying, “The star would have an idiot toga and a pencil mustache.” and describes his character as “an absolute jackass.” Sounds good to me! This would mark Clooney’s third collaboration with the Coens and the final part of what he calls his “Idiot Trilogy” following O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty. “Hail, Caesar” is just one of the many scripts the Coen brothers have worked on over the years, you can read about some of the others in the Future Projects section.