Those of you who Coen Brothers fans who have been a bit disappointed by their two most recent films, Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers, may be happy to note that those forms were departures from the way the Coens ordinarily develop their films — and that they’ll be returning to form with their next picture. From a BBC interview with Joel Coen:

Q: The Ladykillers is a remake. Are there any other films you’d remake?

A: Well, Intolerable Cruelty was not a remake, but it wasn’t from a story that we originated. The Ladykillers is one we wrote for Barry Sonnenfeld to direct and for various reasons he decided to produce it instead and we ended up directing it, so they both started as writing jobs. The next one we do will probably be from our own story and we’ll be approaching it much more in the way we have approached our previous work.

Even though I’m a fan of their recent work, as well as of their classic stuff, this quote is kinda exciting . . .