George Clooney is attached to direct and produce "The Yankee Comandante" at Focus Features says Deadline. Focus is currently making a rights deal for David Grann’s massive The New Yorker article from last week about William Alexander Morgan, an American who helped Castro and the Cuban rebels overthrow Fulgencio Batista. Morgan was the sole … [Read more...]
Clooney Planning Smothers Brothers Flick
December 12, 2011 by
George Clooney and Grant Heslov are set to make a film about 60's comedians Tom and Dicky Smothers at Sony Pictures and Smokehouse says Deadline. Based on the David Bianculli book "Dangerously Funny", the story follows the two brothers who famously squabbled both off screen and on air during their late 60's CBS series. Initially quite clean, … [Read more...]
George Clooney Drops Out Of “U.N.C.L.E.”
August 30, 2011 by
George Clooney is reportedly dropping out of the cast of Steven Soderbergh's film adaptation of classic 60's TV series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." at Warner Bros. Pictures says Deadline. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum starred in the original spy drama as two agents of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.), who fought the … [Read more...]
