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"We're doing one now," said Lievsay of Universal's 2016 release, with an ensemble cast that includes George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Scarlett Johansson and Jonah Hill. It tells the comedic tale of Eddie Mannix, a fixer who worked for the Hollywood studios in the 1950s, and follows a single day in his life as he is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
Burwell added, "It's a musical comedy that takes place on a Hollywood backlot, so you pass through all these pictures that are in production there." Since the storyline has the plot popping into different in-progress films, the musical sequences will differ, but among the ones planned is "a tap-dance water number."
But don't expect too much lightheartedness onscreen. Burwell later explained to The Hollywood Reporter, "I wouldn't actually call it a 'musical comedy' — there are movies within the movie, and those movies might have comedic music, but the movie we're making is actually not comical. I haven't written the music yet, but I'm quite certain it's actually going to be quite the opposite. It's going to be rather serious, and it's about faith. It's not about the music."
He continued, "It's actually pretty complicated, musically — you'll see, the themes that I'm writing for the movie have to relate to the themes of the movies within the movie. So it's actually this rug with all these threads going in and out. But I haven't written it yet!"
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New Coen Brothers sounds like a blast 
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one good thing from that era
