Coen Bros new 'Inside Lllewyn Davis' followup movie will be 1950s comedy entitled 'Hail Caesar'

Joel and Ethan Coen, better known as the Coen Bros., are starting their next project entitled Hail Caesar. The new dark comedy is set in 1950s Hollywood and we can't wait to see how it turns out!

Deadline reports on the sibling filmmakers' Inside Llewyn Davis followup:

Joel and Ethan Coen are putting together their next film, and it's about a fixer in Hollywood circa 1950s who works for the studios to protect the stars of the day. Entitled Hail Caesar, 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.

Ethan recently said that this new movie is about "the movie business and life and religion and faith." This statement was accompanied by a name-drop: George Clooney. Unfortunately this new update on the project doesn't name any actors so we shouldn't assume Clooney is involved anymore.