Hail, Caesar is a Coen Brothers (above) film the follows one day in the life of a Hollywood fixer in the Golden Age of Hollywood. And yes, he has a lot of things to fix – including finding the kidnapped star of a gargantuan Hollywood epic.
George Clooney is the kidnapped star; Scarlett Johannson plays an Esther Williams type who also has ‘contacts’; Tilda Swinton is a Hedda Hopper-like gossip columnist and Josh Brolin is the fixer.
Check out the extremely witty trailer following the jump. Hail, Caesar opens on February 5, 2016.
Four-time Oscar®-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Fargo) write and direct Hail, Caesar!, an all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Channing Tatum, Hail, Caesar! follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
The comedy is produced by the Coen brothers under their Mike Zoss Productions banner alongside Working Title Films’ Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.