What's a bigger deal to us DC folks? Transformers 3 shooting for 3 days on The Mall (and the possibility Abraham Lincoln is an Autobot?), or George Clooney directing Farragut North? DC Ladies, let the swooning commence! Cinematical is reporting Clooney will start shooting the movie next February in hopes of getting it into theaters by Fall 2011. Farragut North, the story of an idealistic campaign worker who gets sickened by the system, is set to star Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Chris "Captain Kirk" Pine played the role of the campaign worker in an
LA production of the play, and he might get the same role in the movie
version.
Other possible co-stars include Marisa Tomei (obviously, she wants to come back to DC after she and I hit it off a few years ago at a happy hour celebrating The Wrestler).
No one has confirmed the movie will shoot in DC, and the play takes place in Iowa, but Clooney is familiar with the city after producing the HBO series K Street in 2003, and the scope of a movie versus a theater production will allow him to do something here in DC. Plus, he can make the movie more interesting by showing the DC power players at work in the city before, during and after the Iowa caucuses.
You can bank on it, and I promise I will wear the heavy winter coat and stalk out the production until Marisa or George give me an interview (or security asks me to leave by letting the hired goons escort me into a darkened alley).
Other possible co-stars include Marisa Tomei (obviously, she wants to come back to DC after she and I hit it off a few years ago at a happy hour celebrating The Wrestler).
No one has confirmed the movie will shoot in DC, and the play takes place in Iowa, but Clooney is familiar with the city after producing the HBO series K Street in 2003, and the scope of a movie versus a theater production will allow him to do something here in DC. Plus, he can make the movie more interesting by showing the DC power players at work in the city before, during and after the Iowa caucuses.
You can bank on it, and I promise I will wear the heavy winter coat and stalk out the production until Marisa or George give me an interview (or security asks me to leave by letting the hired goons escort me into a darkened alley).
