Clooney And Coens Reunited

Recovering from the budget-bust that caused their Brad pitt project To The White Sea to get shelved, the Coen brothers have now lined up their next project and it may end up reuniting them with George Clooney. The O Brother Where Art Thou? star is hotly tipped for the lead in the Coens' upcoming black romantic comedy Intolerably Cruelty. Clooney would take the role of a Hollywood divorce lawyer who find himself the target of a serious grudge, when a client's ex-wife decides to relieve her post-marital stress by forming a vendetta against him. Cue unexpected and unconventional romantic wranglings. The Coens are reportedly also keen to enlist Clooney's Ocean's Eleven co-star Julia Roberts to join him. Intolerable Cruelty has taken something of a twist, turny route to production, according to Variety. The film starting out in the hands of Ron Howard and Andrew Bergman before becoming poised for direction by Jonathan Demme, starring Hugh Grant and Tea Leoni. Will Smith was later in talks, before Demme pulled out and the project landed in the more than capable hands of Joel and Ethan Coen, who had been brought in several years previously to work on the script. Confused? Good.