Jeffrey Prettyboy Wells has learned from a mysterious confidante that Emanuelle Lubezki is to be the cinematographer for Burn Before Reading, the Coen film shooting this autumn. He goes on to report that very few storyboards will be used as the film is to be shot handheld, 'verite style'.
This report also claims that Brad Pitt will play the agent at the centre of the plot, not some kind of personal trainer as I've been told.
No Country For Old Men is to premiere at Cannes; Burn Before Reading - and my best info maintains Before, not After - will start shooting in the late summer; A Serious Man is scheduled to start filming afterwards.
Both Serious and Burn are financed in the same two-picture deal between Focus and Working Title.
So what happened to Hail Caesar! and Suburbicon? Are they gone forever? And what about their untitled comedy about the Itallian catwalk model? It's reasonable to speculate that A Serious Man is, in fact, one of these previously touted projects under a new name. Both of the named projects were definitely about serious men. But then again... there's been such a long break since the last original Coen script that a few may have stockpiled in the meantime.
My best info suggests that George Clooney's role in Burn is as an asassin while Brad Pitt's role is as a personal trainer. I'm still digging for more...
Brad Pitt has signed on to Burn Before Reading, according to The Hollywood Reporter - who call it Burn After Reading. Hmmm.
George Clooney and Frances McDormand were already in the cast. The Coens have written, will direct and produce. Shooting starts in August. There was plenty about this film on film ick before - the search engine at the top of the page will help you, it is your friend, it takes you new places and it shows you new things.
Production Weekly have put George Clooney in the starring frame for 36, the remake of 36 Quai des Orfevres. Apparently, Marc Forster will be shooting the film, from a Dean Georgaris script, later this year - right when we all though Clooney would be busy (and hopefully still will be) with the Coens and Burn Before Reading. If one of the films is to fall by the wayside, I sincerely hope it's Forster's.
De Niro is set for the other lead role, the other of two cops competing for a promotion. The stars of the original were Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil and while it hasn't been announced which way round the recast will fall , but I'd expect it to go Depardieu/De Niro and Auteuil/Clooney.
