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Reject false Coens, even if Clooney-shaped. Review by Brandon Wolfe Ever since O Brother, Where Art Thou? , George Clooney has been a staple of some of the Coen Brothers’ sillier offerings in the 21st Century. Clooney has also appeared in their iffy Intolerable Cruelty as well as in the much stronger Burn After Reading . He has fashioned such a close working relationship with the Coens that he has now been entrusted with directing a script they’ve written. But just because you’ve worked with the Coens don’t make you the Coens. The Coens wrote the script for Suburbicon in 1986, shortly after completing Blood Simple , yet never produced it, for whatever reason. But, upon seeing the finished product, it’s clearly of a piece with their oeuvre. The acidic black comedy, the comically boneheaded characters, the caper gone awry, the creatively gruesome deaths are all very familiar. Suburbicon , however, never gels the way that even the lesser Coen efforts do. Some key ingredient didn’t ...

Scarlett Johansson is in talks to join the Coen brothers’ drama “ Hail Caesar .” Jonah Hill is also in talks to join the cast. She would join Josh Brolin and George Clooney. Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes are also in negotiations to co-star. Universal will distribute with the Coens producing, along with Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan for Working Title Films. The story follows a Hollywood fixer in the 1950s who is working to keep a studio’s stars in line. Johansson will play an actress who suddenly becomes pregnant as her film is about to go into production. It’s a good fit, since Johansson announced in March that she was pregnant. She is engaged to Romain Dauriac. The plan is to go into production this fall and given the size of the cast, Johansson’s role is not expected to take very long to shoot. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Variety