It's a day for great rejoicing for fans of Joel and Ethan Coen. After a break of 3 years since The Ladykillers (not counting their short segment of portmanteau film Paris Je T'Aime, out June 22) there are now not one, not two but three Coen films in the development pipeline, and there doesn't appear to be an Ealing remake or romantic comedy among them.
Yup, in addition to Cannes entry No Country For Old Men and the recently announced and rather tasty-sounding Burn After Reading, the Coens have also lined up A Serious Man, described as "a dark comedy in the vein of Fargo". But, er, that's it - all other plot details are currently under wraps, so we're going to speculate entirely and say it's about a dude who doesn't take things lightly.
This is the second of a two-picture deal that the brothers made with Focus Pictures and Blighty's own Working Title, with the first being Burn After Reading, due to start shooting later this summer. In the meantime, the Coens are still busy tweaking and finishing No Country, for its grand debut on the Croisette. Rumours that they've added in Catherine Zeta-Jones and Tom Hanks cameos are, you may be glad to know (although both Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty are very underrated) entirely fictitious.