George Clooney may star in Steven Soderbergh's The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
We reported just yesterday that director Steven Soderbergh was in talks to helm the adaptation. This new story indicates that George Clooney is already talking with Steven Soderbergh about starring in the project.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. won't be coming to theaters for some time, though, with the tentative plan being to start production in late 2011. Steven Soderbergh is currently filming Contagion, which will be released on October 21, 2011 and, as Matt Damon recently revealed a few weeks ago, Steven Soderbergh will then begin production on the Untitled Liberace Project next summer, with Matt Damon and Michael Douglas starring. However, a 2012 start date for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. seems like a more reasonable bet, given the director's schedule.
It was also said that the current plan for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. involves starting from square one, throwing out previous drafts of the script by Max Borenstein, David Dobkin and others. Scott Z. Burns is writing the new script from scratch and it is said that the movie would not be modernized, and will still take place in the 1960s like the original TV show.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is in development and stars Tom Cruise, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander. The film is directed by Guy Ritchie.
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CelluloidDreams
Interesting!
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skywise
Soderbergh is hit or miss but always has a great eye for framing a shot. he can really make the most mundane aspects of life look cool and interesting, unfortunatly the same can not be said for some of the scripts he directs.
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slysnide
My parents got the attache collector set of the whole series, and even they can't believe they ever liked it as kids given how corny it was. But given what Soderbergh was able to with the sixties flick "Ocean's Eleven," then staying in the sixties rather than modernizing it can make for a good comedy, if in fact that's the direction they take this.
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