Coen's BURN AFTER READING opens Sept 12th

Not long to go until the next Coens masterpiece opens in a theatre near you (as long as you live in the States). Is it too soon and overly optimistic to call Burn After Reading a masterpiece some six months before it opens and before any trailers or real press for the film have begun? I say with the Coens track record and the cast. No frikkin' way. My expectations are through the roof...

Focus Features and Working Title have decided to go wide when opening the Coen brother's next film "Burn After Reading" on Sept. 12 because of the film's comedic appeal and cast. Dark spy-comedy stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton, who recently starred with Clooney in "Michael Clayton."

The movie which is being directed and produced from a original script the Coens wrote revolves around an ousted CIA official whose memoir inadvertently falls into the hands of two bumbling Washington, D.C. gym employees. If the Coens filmography fall into the two categories of quirky comedy (Intolerable Cruely, The Ladykillers, O, Brother Where Art Thou?) and dark and sombre serious (Fargo, No Country For Old Men, Miller's Crossing) their next movie definitely falls upon the first category which may not be the most interesting from them but with the ever improving evolution of the Coens directing style and the talents of Clooney, Pitt and Swinton who all had a great 2007... this still should be amazing. source - variety