Coen Brothers' "Burn After Reading" Gets Release Date

Joel and Ethan Coen, otherwise known as the Coen Brothers, have a release date for their next film. Focus Features announced yesterday that Burn After Reading, the Oscar-winning directors’ follow-up to this year’s Best Picture winner No Country For Old Men, will open domestically on Friday, September 12, 2008.

The Coens may have won an Oscar for the serious-in-tone, No Country, but Burn After Reading starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand focuses on the world of the CIA, physical fitness in Washington, D.C., and internet dating. Really. It may be full of Oscar winners and nominees but this film has darkly funny written all over it.

In Burn After Reading Malkovich will play Ozzie Cox, a former CIA agent whose soon-to-be ex-wife (Tilda Swinton) steals a disc containing his memoirs and accidentally leaves it at the gym where it is found by two trainers, Chad and Linda (Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand), who believe they can use the info to blackmail Cox. George Clooney will play a friend of the Cox’s who starts to have an affair with Cox’s wife and later on Linda as he starts to get caught up in the situation between the trainers and the CIA. It is said that both Pitt and Clooney will be playing two of the dumbest characters of their careers.

I think this film is going to be a lot of fun.