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Clooney, Coens: Spy Reunion
How's this for a page turner?
After making his helming debut with the spy caper Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and winning an Academy Award for his serious turn as a CIA officer in the politically charged drama Syriana, George Clooney is reuniting with filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen for a lighter take on the subject of spooks.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the thesp is set to headline Burn Before Reading, a comedy in which he'll play a contract killer writing a book about his experiences with the agency, only to lose a disk containing CIA secrets. As he goes about trying to recover the files, people who come into contact with the classified intelligence end up dead.
The film marks Clooney's third collaboration with the Coen brothers. He previously starred as an escaped convict in 2000's O Brother, Where Art Thou? and a womanizing divorce lawyer opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones' gold-digging divorcée in 2003's Intolerable Cruelty.
Joel Coen will direct Burn Before Reading, and Ethan Coen will produce. As usual, both will cowrite the screenplay, which is based on Admiral Stansfield Turner's book, Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors and Secret Intelligence.
Before they can begin shooting the spy spoof, the Coens must first finish up postproduction on their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men with Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones, due out next year. After that, they have two comedies in the works, Hail Caesar, about a 1920s theater troupe staging a production of Julius Caesar, and Suburbicon.
As for Clooney, he recently wrapped two flicks with his former Section Eight business partner, director Steven Soderbergh.
The first, The Good German, a post-World War II thriller unspooling in limited release this December, has the actor playing a journalist searching for his former mistress. Then, there's Ocean's Thirteen, which finds him reprising his debonair role as enterprising thief Danny Ocean.
Clooney is also preparing to don his director hat for a third time for Leatherheads, in which he'll also star. The movie, about a 1920s football team, starts filming in the spring with Renée Zellweger as the female lead.
When he's not playing a hit man, the Hollywood hunk is a hit with men.
With all these tough guy parts, perhaps it's no surprise Clooney was voted the number one man's man by AskMen.com this week, topping a list of 49 men most admired by other men. He came out ahead of rap mogul Jay-Z, billionaire tycoon Richard Branson and cyclist Lance Armstrong.
He's also admired by his industry peers. Earlier this month, the American Cinematheque honored him with its 21st annual American Cinematheque Award—not only for his big-screen work, but also for his political activism, such as campaigning to help pressure the Bush administration to stop the genocide in Darfur.
For those wondering whether Clooney is harboring future political ambitions, don't bet on it. The Oscar winner told reporters at the awards dinner he's not running for office anytime soon.
"I like my life," he said.
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