Even though "The Ides Of March" is on the awards season comeback trail, it didn't make the initial waves we anticipated. Another strong directorial effort from George Clooney after the misstep that was "Leatherheads," the return to form looks to have revitalized the filmmaking bug in Clooney, as the actor/director is now attached to co-write, direct and star in an adaptation of WWII-set heist film "The Monuments Men."

The Wrap reports that the big-budget adaptation of Robert M. Edsel's "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History" has been set up at Sony, is being eyed by Clooney as his next effort behind the camera, and will follow the story of a hand-picked group of American and British art experts chosen by the U.S. government to try to retrieve artwork stolen by the Nazis.

“I’m excited about it,” Clooney revealed at Palm Springs Film Festival. “It’s a fun move because it could be big entertainment. It’s a big budget, you can’t do it small -- it’s landing in Normandy...I’m not opposed to doing a commercial film, I’m just opposed to doing a commercial film that doesn’t feel organic to me. So if we’re going to do a commercial film we thought, 'Let’s do something that seems fun and actually have something to say.'  ”

Here's the full synopsis, courtesy of Amazon: At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.

Politically tinged material, it definitely sounds like it's squarely in the wheelhouse that Clooney and Smoke House partner Grant Heslov love to tackle, and, as he mentions, it could easily be his most ambitious yet accessible project. 

No word either on what leading role Clooney will take on himself, but there seem to be plenty available, with an ensemble cast set to surround the actor-director. Last we heard, Clooney and Heslov's Smoke House shingle had planned to have "Our Brand Is Crisis" as the next project in production; whether that means 'Monuments' has now been pushed to the front of the line, or if Clooney's simply just added one more film to his development pile, remains unclear. The duo have also recently been linked to a film about '60's comedians The Smothers Brothers, so clearly they've got a lot of options to turn to next.

 

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조지 클루니는 2차 세계 대전을 배경으로 하는 "The Monuments Men"에서
각본, 연출, 주연을 병행할 예정이다.
 
 
"The Wrap"의 보도에 의하면, 이 영화는 Robert M. Edsel의 소설
"The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure
Hunt in History"이 원작이며, 나치에 의해 강탈된 예술품들을 되찾기 위해
미국 정부가 고용한 미국-영국 예술품 전문가들의 이야기를 다루게 된다.
 

"나는 그것에 관해 흥미를 가지고 있다"고 조지 클루니는
Palm Springs Film Festival에서 이야기했다.
"그것은 거대한 엔터테인먼트가 될 수 있기 때문에
아주 흥미로운 영화가 될 것이다. 그것은 거대한 예산의 영화이다."
 

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조지 클루니가 주인공 역할을 맡을 것인지는 알려지지 않았다.
조지 클루니와 그의 Smoke House 파트너인 Grant Heslov는
다음 프로젝트로 "Our Brand Is Crisis"를 계획하고 있다.
 
"Monuments"가 그가 준비중인 영화의 최우선이 될지
아니면 Clooney가 준비중인 여러편의 영화목록의 단순히 첨가가 될지는
불분명하다. 조지 클루니는 최근 60년대 코미디 "The Smothers Brothers"를
만들 것이라는 소식도 전해졌었다.

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