Steven Speilberg is a busy chap. A very busy chap indeed. That sounds like the start of some movie orientated nursery rhyme. Anyway, with Joel and Ethan Coen having been hired to write a new draft of a yet untitled Cold War story, the Jurassic Park director is now set to take on this movie next and following on from that, expect his ass in the director's chair of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, amidst a plethora of other projects, including Robopocalypse (which has gone back to the rewrite chamber)
This unnamed cold war thriller is based on a true story, following the tale of James Donovan an American lawyer who was enlisted by the CIA and negotiate the release of a U-2 spy plane bomber pilot that was shot down over Russia. The movie will see Tom Hanks reteam with Spielberg again (they previously worked on Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal) which is obviously a good thing, considering their cinematic history together. It is going to be interesting though to see what the cinemas most famous brothers will do with a cold war thriller. We know they can do the period stuff (Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou) and they have a formidable style of writing and delivery, especially around dialogue but can they translate their enormous talents to a cold war thriller? Watch this space!
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