Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Burn After Reading: Coen Brothers' upcoming project

Title: Burn After Reading

Written and Directed by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Cast and crew: George Clooney, Frances Mc Dormand,

John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt.

Synopsis: A black comedy, Burn after Reading tells the story of Ozzie Cox (John Malkovich), Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) and Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton). Ozzie Cox (John Malkovich) is a veteran CIA agent, who is afraid of getting fired. He writes about all his assignments and puts it in a disk. Unfortunately, he leaves the disc at the gym. Later, it was found by Chad Feldheimer, an employee of the gym. He along with his boss, Lida Litzke, who is desparate for plastic surgery to rejuvenate her love life, plan to blackmail Cox. Harry Pfarrer is assigned to recover the disk. He is having an affair with Ozzie’s wife Katie Cox.

Useful links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_After_Reading

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/08/burn_after_reading_meet_the_co.html

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