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HOME arrow tMF Exclusives arrow BURN AFTER READING: The Coens' new comedy has a trailer!
BURN AFTER READING: The Coens' new comedy has a trailer! Print E-mail
Written by Jed Medina   
Saturday, 31 May 2008
A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official’s (Academy Award nominee John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find.
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That's the official synopsis of Burn After Reading, the follow-up movie from the Coen brothers, who definitely made waves with their film, No Country for Old Men, having won many awards at the recent Oscars.

More About the Movie: The February 2008 issue of Empire Magazine has this to say about the movie: "Malkovich is Ozzie Cox, a fired CIA vet who takes his revenge by writing some inflammatory memoirs and then loses them. George Clooney is a fellow spy investigating the matter, who meets Francis McDormand via computer dating, who runs a gym where Brad Pitt works. " Focus Features has just released an awesome red band trailer for the movie.

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Says John Malkovich on the movie and his role:

"It's a really funny script in my opinion. An inter-related black comedy of manners, set in Washington, D.C., but not particularly involved at all with the politics. No-one in this film is very good. They're either slightly emotionally or mentally defective. Quirky, self-aggrandising, scheming. Nobody's particularly bad in it, but the guy I play just has a very bad drinking problem. He's an analyst in the CIA, fired because he has a drinking problem. It's a good cast, funny people, everybody has a good part and kind of unexpected ones." ]

Oscar winner Tilda Swinton has this to say too:

"[Compared to Michael Clayton] We're even more horrible to each other this time. In fact, it was quite sweet; on the last day of shooting he said, 'When are we going to make a film together when we're nice to each other?' "I'm very happy to shout at him on screen. It's great fun. [Burn After Reading is] a kind of monster caper movie. All of us are monsters -- like, true monsters. It's ridiculous. It's much lighter than 'No Country for Old Men.'" [ read more ]
The movie will open the 2008 Venice Film festival this coming August 27, 2008. The movie is also listed at #2 in ioncinema's Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008.

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Ozzie Cox? What kind of name is that?

Top-shelf actors and filmmakers and concept! Can't wait to see this.
ScreenwritingforHollywood , June 02, 2008 | url
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anything w/ brad pitt is gonna be a hit, plus george, oh ya!
kkunzie , June 04, 2008

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