No other filmmakers feel more comfortable in post-noir than the Coen brothers. For recent proof visit the theaters for No Country for Old Men. Signed up until 2009 with (currently in post-production) Burn After Reading and in the works with A Serious Man, Variety reports that Scott Rudin (who must be itching to work with the bros. again especially with what will occur on Oscar night) has teamed up with the brothers on the studio-backed project that Columbia Pictures have bought the screen rights for.
The novel to screen adaptation of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is based on Michael Chabon’s 2007-released (read NYMag review) novel – is an odd detective narrative about where Jewish settlers are about to be displaced by U.S. government’s
plans to turn the frozen locale of Sitka, Alaska, over to Alaskan
natives. Against this backdrop is a noir-style murder mystery in which
a rogue cop investigates the killing of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy
who might be the messiah.
