Pitt, Clooney Feel the Burn
Forget Angelina Jolie, the person Brad Pitt can't seem to live without is George Clooney. At least on the big screen.
The Ocean's Thirteen duo has teamed up yet again, this time for Burn After Reading, a black comedy—what else?—from the Coen brothers.
Details of the story are scarce at best, though Pitt's publicist Cindy Guagenti confirmed to E! News that the film will be set in the world of the CIA and follows an agent who loses a disc containing a tell-all book he's been writing about his work and life.
Clooney will play the role of the agent, but it's unknown exactly how Pitt will factor into the film.
Also on board is frequent Coen muse and director Joel Coen's wife, Frances McDormand.
Joel and brother Ethan cowrote the secretive script, which marks the fraternal pair's first original screenplay offering since 2001's O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a film that also marked the first of what will now be three big screen outings with Clooney.
After O Brother, the threesome reteamed up for 2003's Intolerable Cruelty. Burn After Reading marks just the first time the brothers have worked with Pitt.
The movie is expected to go into production in Los Angeles this August.
However, the would-be collaborators may be meeting up before then.
The parties are all expected to convene in Cannes next month to promote several high-profile projects.
While dueling Sexiest Men Alive Pitt and Clooney will walk the Riviera's red carpet in support of Ocean's Thirteen, Pitt will also surely cause a media sensation when he and Jolie premiere A Mighty Heart at the south of France festival May 16. The film, produced by Pitt's Plan B, stars Jolie as the Mariane Pearl, the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Both will screen out of competition at the 60th edition of the venerable fest.
The Coen brothers' latest offering, however, will be vying for the coveted Palme d'Or with the crime drama No Country for Old Men, a blood-soaked adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel.





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