Instead, they tapped then-four-time Oscar nominee Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki as their director of photography for the project. THE FILM MARKED THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY 20 YEARS THAT THE COENS DIDN'T WORK WITH THEIR USUAL CINEMATOGRAPHER, ROGER DEAKINS.īurn After Reading is one of the few films the Coens haven't shot with their longtime cinematographer Roger Deakins, who had already committed to working with Sam Mendes on Revolutionary Road. "So we wrote John’s part specifically for him, which was a lot of fun to do.” 5. “Like Brad, John Malkovich is someone we hadn’t worked with before but have wanted to for some time," Joel Coen said. THE ROLE OF OSBORNE COX WAS WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY FOR JOHN MALKOVICH.Įven though they had never worked with Malkovich before, the Coens wrote the lead role with the two-time Oscar nominee in mind. "We thought about a mix of characters, and a story, that might be interesting to see these actors play." 4. “We came up with the idea thinking about different parts we wanted to write for actors that we know-who we thought might be fun to throw together George Clooney, Richard Jenkins, Frances McDormand, and Brad Pitt, each of whom we know and all of whom we have worked with before, except for Brad," Ethan Coen said. THEY PUT THE ACTORS AHEAD OF THE STORY.īurn After Reading features many of the Coens' usual players, and in some ways they were thinking about the actors they wanted to work with-and what sort of situations they could put them in-before the finer details of the story itself.
No Country for Old Men would go on to earn them Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture in 2008. "We actually wrote this script around the same time we were adapting No Country for Old Men," Joel Coen said. While the Coens' standard practice is to work on one project at a time, they made an exception with Burn After Reading. THE COENS WROTE THE SCREENPLAY FOR BURN AFTER READING AT THE SAME TIME THEY WERE WRITING NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. The Coens wrote the role of Pfarrer specifically for him.
Clooney also starred in 2000’s O Brother Where Art Thou? and 2003’s Intolerable Cruelty.
The film marked Clooney's third collaboration with the Coens. In Burn After Reading, George Clooney plays married federal marshal Harry Pfarrer, who's having an affair with Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton), the wife of CIA analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich).
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