Thornton And Rush Sign On For Some Cruelty

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Billy Bob Thornton and Geoffrey Rush have signed on for small roles in Universal Pictures' "Intolerable Cruelty" for Joel Coen to direct, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

The project stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as a Beverly Hills gold digger with several past husbands and George Clooney as the world's toughest divorce attorney. Rivals at first, they end up falling in love. Thornton will play Howard Doyle, a soap opera star who poses as one of the woman's husbands.

Rush plays a daytime drama television director who appears at the beginning of the film.

Brian Grazer and Alphaville's Jim Jacks and Sean Daniel are producing the project with Ethan Coen, who rewrote the material with brother Joel Coen.

The project goes into production in the summer.