Posted exclusively on Cinematical, I found it on First Showing where they tell us that the artwork for this poster is based off that of Saul Bass, who designed legendary posters for movies like Vertigo, West Side Story, North By Northwest and more. You can see some of those old posters over on First Showing.

I mean, what can you say about it? It’s retro, cool, unique and intriguing. It’s one of the better posters I’ve seen this year.

If you haven’t heard much about the film, you need to check out the trailer.

Enjoy!

With Pitt’s upcoming Curious Case of Benjamin Button and also this film, he seems posed to have a great year.

This new red band trailer for Burn After Reading just adds to the excitement I have for this movie. It looks hilarious, there are some fabulous actors in it and the plot looks great. Almost reminds of a Get Shorty-like film, although I think this might be much, much better.

It’s also funny to see George Clooney with Tilda Swinton here, after being total enemies in Michael Clayton.

Anyways, enjoy the trailer below. It’s red band, but not too awful, mostly just some profanity.

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Burn After Reading is set to open on 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.

Well, if you’re Joel Coen and Ethan Coen you follow it up with a dark comedy called “Burn After Reading” starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand that focuses on the world of the CIA, physical fitness in Washington, D.C., and internet dating.
 
Hey, I can’t make this stuff up…

The Coen Brothers may be in the news for the work they did on “No Country” but buzz for their next film is already building. With an all-star, A list cast, the directors were bound to garner some attention even if it weren’t for the Oscar buzz surrounding them these days. And much like when they followed “Barton Fink” with “The Hudsucker Proxy,” and “The Man Who Wasn’t There” with “Intolerable Cruelty,” the brothers are following up the darkness of “No Country” with the comedy of “Burn After Reading.”

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 personally think it sounds off-the-wall funny. Coen Brother films are almost always enjoyable, the comedies most of all. With the cast they have assembled I don’t think they can help but get a good show out of what is said to be a very funny script.

Principal photography ended in November, but a release date has not yet been set.

Click the link below to check out some of the first images from the film and from the set.