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Burn After Reading
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Starring: John Malkovich, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, David Rasche, Brad Pitt
Language: English
Country: United States
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Burn After Reading is an black comedy film, set for a September 12, 2008 release, starring John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt, and made by Joel and Ethan Coen. The R-rated film is due to premiere on August 27, 2008 when it will open the 2008 Venice Film Festival.
According to the Coens the plot will focus on the world of the CIA, physical fitness in Washington, D.C., and internet dating. The film is the brothers’ first since the Academy Award winning No Country For Old Men and has been described by Tilda Swinton as “…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.” The song that features in trailer is Grounds for Divorce by the British band Elbow from their album The Seldom Seen Kid.
Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) is a CIA analyst who quits his job at the CIA after being demoted because of his drinking problem. He then decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton), wants to divorce Osbourne and, at the counsel of her divorce lawyer, she copies all his personal financial files off his computer along with his work-in-progress memoirs. This disk eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), who works at the gym, finds the disc and intends to blackmail Cox with his former employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand). CIA agent Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) who is assigned to recover the disc is also sleeping with Katie, Osbourne’s wife.
Cast:
- George Clooney – Harry Pfarrer
- Frances McDormand – Linda Litzke
- Brad Pitt – Chad Feldheimer
- John Malkovich – Osbourne Cox
- Tilda Swinton – Katie Cox
- Richard Jenkins – Ted Treffon
- Elizabeth Marvel – Sandy Pfarrer
- David Rasche – CIA Officer
- J. K. Simmons – CIA Superior
- Devin Rumer – Surveillance Man
Working Title Films is producing the film for Focus Features. This will be the first Coen brothers movie since Miller’s Crossing to not use Roger Deakins as cinematographer. Emmanuel Lubezki, the four-time Academy Award-nominated cinematographer of Sleepy Hollow and Children of Men, will take over for Deakins. Principal filming took place around Brooklyn Heights, as the Coens wanted to stay in New York City to be with their families. Other scenes were filmed at Paramus, New Jersey, Westchester County, New York and Washington, D.C. Filming began on August 27, 2007 and was completed on October 30, 2007.
During a fall movie preview, Entertainment Weekly wrote John Malkovich “easily racks up the most laughs” among the cast as the foul-mouthed ex-CIA man. The first scene Malkovich performed was a phone call in which he shouts several obscenities at Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand. But Malkovich could not be on the sound stage for the call because he was rehearsing a play, so he called in the lines from his apartment in Paris. Regarding the scene, Malkovich said, “It was really late at night and I was screaming at the top of my lungs. God knows what the neighbors thought.”
Tilda Swinton plays Malkovich’s wife who engages in an affair with George Clooney, although the two characters do not get along well. Clooney and Swinton’s characters also had a poor relationship in their previous film together, Michael Clayton, prompting Clooney to say to Swinton at the end of a shoot, “Well, maybe one day we’ll get to make a film together when we say one nice thing to each other.”
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