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| 11 October 2007 | Clooney To Direct Leo DiCaprio?
In an adaptation of Farragut North
Source: Variety |
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DiCaprio! Clooney! Sounds like a movie marketeer’s dream, and now it is ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
Kind of. Maybe.
It was announced today that George Clooney is circling the director’s chair on an adaptation of Beau Willimon’s play, Farragut North, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star.
No word yet on whether Clooney will star alongside DiCaprio, giving those marketeers what they want, but given that the storyline contains a character for whom he’d be perfect, don’t be surprised if he ends up in front of the camera on this one as well.
DiCaprio will play an idealistic communications director working for a fast-rising presidential candidate (hmm… Clooney?), who gradually falls foul of backstabbing and dirty tricks from rival politicos. The eye-opening message: politics is a dirty game! But it seems like a perfect fit for both DiCaprio and Clooney, who are active political players in Hollywood.
If Clooney does take the job, it will be his fourth film as a director – the third, American football comedy Leatherheads, will come out next year.
Willimon, who’s also writing The Jury for Marc Forster, will write the script for Warner Bros., and DiCaprio’s Appian Way, and Clooney’s Smoke House production company, which he runs with Grant Heslov. | | Tom Ambrose |
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