 The Ocean's films benefit from chemistry between the stars |
Ocean's Eleven stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt are to appear together in a black comedy by the Oscar-winning Coen brothers, a trade magazine reports. The Hollywood Reporter says Pitt has signed on to join Clooney in Burn After Reading, about a CIA agent who loses the disc of a book he is writing.
Joel and Ethan Coen are highly acclaimed for films including Oscar-winner Fargo and Barton Fink.
Ocean's Thirteen is to be shown at next month's Cannes Film Festival.
Its forerunners in 2001 and 2004 (Ocean's Twelve) have together earned more than $800m (�400m) worldwide.
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Burn After Reading is also due to star Frances McDormand, who won a best actress Oscar for her performance in the crime movie Fargo.
Clooney has previously appeared in the Coens' O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty.
 The Coens' last film was a remake of the classic, The Ladykillers |
The brothers, who write together and are said to share directing and producing duties, are among the world's most acclaimed film-makers. Their latest movie, the thriller No Country for Old Men, will compete for Cannes' top prize - the Palme d'Or - next month.
They took home the honour in 1991 for Barton Fink, a surreal comedy-drama starring John Turturro as a playwright suffering writer's block in 1940s Hollywood.
Their other works include Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski and The Man Who Wasn't There.
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