The Coen Brothers Are Back
April 22nd, 2007
BBC has news of two new movies from the Coen brothers. First is No Country for Old Men - an adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel by the same name. “Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande” - sounds like vintage Coen territory. This will be competing for the Palme d’Or at Cannes next month We’ll forgive the dodgy title because it comes from a Yeats poem.
The article also mentions next year’s offering, Burn After Reading, which will be starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Frances McDormand. Wikipedia has a few notes:
Burn After Reading is a comedic spy caper with Clooney. A CIA agent (George Clooney won’t play that role) loses the disc of a book he is writing, which contains valuable information, and it’s up to him to get it back.
It’s great to see the duo back in action. They have really tied the industry together since they wrote and directed Blood Simple in 1984. They may have taken their eye off the ball a bit with their latest offerings (Tom Hanks = bad idea), but if their rambunctiousness and misdemeanoring is behind them, then I will be most eager in awaiting their upcoming releases. Fuckin’ A, man.
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