I don’t think I’m going to ruffle any feathers by saying that I love the Coen brothers. Two of my favorite movies are O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Big Lebowski. They’ve announced their next project, Hail Caesar, and it sounds right up their alley.
From Deadline:
…the comical yarn centers on a man named Eddie Mannix who sounds a lot like the Fred Otash of his day — the famed 1950s private investigator who worked for Confidential magazine and was the muckraker of the time using wiretaps to spy on movie stars and gather dirt. Otash was a former lifeguard who became a cop, lost his job as a cop and became a private eye who wiretapped. The project is being put together now. It’s not clear if the Eddie Mannix in the script is based on the man of the same who was a MGM vp, for those of you wondering. The real Mannix was vp and general manager under Louis B. Mayer and Dore Schary. It was Mannix’s wife who actor George Reeves had the affair with. Reeves was later found with a gunshot wound to the head and it was ruled a suicide by the L.A. County coroner’s office but questions have always persisted about the death.
Wow, that’s terribly written. But a Coen brothers comedy about movie studio shenanigans in 1950s Hollywood? Sign me up.
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