George Clooney's collaboration with the Coen brothers has been hit and miss so far. In O Brother Where Art Thou they had a hit, in Intolerable Cruelty that had a movie that most people have probably already forgotten exists. According to Production Weekly they'll try working together for a third time on a movie called Burn After Reading.
The Coens are writing their script based on a book called "Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors and Secret Intelligence" by Admiral Stansfield Turner. Stansfield served as the head of the CIA from 1977 to 1981, so he knows a little something about secret organizations. His book is a personal recollection of his time working under President Jimmy Carter.
The movie will be nothing of the sort, instead it's a caper movie about a CIA guy who's writing a book and loses the disc it's written on. Clooney won't play the CIA writer, but instead he'll be some sort of killer.
In a few weeks you can catch Clooney in his latest black and white movie The Good German. Next year he's slated to appear in Ocean's 13 and Michael Clayton, both of which he's already finished filming. Leatherheads is his next project, and once that finishes he'll start on Burn After Reading, probably in August.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Clooney-Back-With-The-Coens-3693.html
