Just watched Fargo again over the weekend, and yep, it’s still fucking awesome. Anyway, here’s what the Coens are up to next, according to Variety.

For their next collaboration, the No Country for Old Men team of Joel and Ethan Coen and producer Scott Rudin will transfer another Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s work into a film.

Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to the bestselling Michael Chabon novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, with the Coens writing, directing and producing with Rudin.

Chabon sets up a contemporary scenario 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.

The Coens will turn their attention to the book after they shoot A Serious Man for Working Title and Focus.

Info on A Serious Man (and one or two more upcoming Coen projects) is here. My review of Chabon’s book is here. Thanks to Cinematical for the heads up.