Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading coming Sept. 12

Following their Academy Award winning No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers are prepping a new feature. Entitled Burn After Reading, the film is set for a Sept. 12 release via Focus Features and Working Title.

Burn has a tone that should appeal to a broader audience, hence the nationwide release. The story follows the comedy, dark as it may be, that ensues when the memoirs of an ex-CIA agent are somehow accidentally left at his wife’s gym. They are then discovered by two finagling employees who decide to use it toward their benefit.

Robert Graf is executive producing and has worked on five other Coen films in various capacities, especially No Country for Old Men, The Man Who Wasn’t There and O Brother Where Art Thou? Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are also producing.

Oscar-winner John Malkovich stars as Osborne Cox, with George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins returning to the Coens’ set. Tilda Swinton, who just won an Academy Award for her work with Clooney on Michael Clayton, plays Katie Cox. Brad Pitt is also slated for his first role in a Coen film.

Next up on the Coen to-do list looks to be the previously reported adaptation of Michael Chabon’s novel The Yiddish Policeman’s Union.

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