From The Playlist: Following the news that Steven Soderbergh will be directing Warner Bros.’ The Man From U.N.C.L.E. it appears that frequent Soderbergh collaborator George Clooney is coming onboard.
Clooney is in talks to portray the lead, U.N.C.L.E. agent Napoleon Solo (played by Robert Vaughn in the original series, which ran from 1964-68.) The film version may also keep the series’s 1960’s setting, which would be fun, seeing as the recent modern-day update of Get Smart with Steve Carrell landed with a thud – remember the shoe phone?
The long-gestating project is in early stages of development, and with Soderbergh currently shooting the medical thriller Contagion with Matt Damon and Jude Law and Clooney busy with his own project, The Ides of March (due in December 2011), we may be waiting on this for quite some time.
The Playlist also reported that Soderbergh’s next film, Haywire, is hitting theaters April 22nd, 2011. The films stars Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton, Michael Angarano, Matthieu Kassovitz and Antonio Banderas. It is a “gritty spy thriller” starring Carano as “a black ops soldier on mission of revenge after she’s double crossed by one of her team-mates.” The script is from Lem Dobbs (The Limey).
Do you like the idea of George Clooney in a 60’s-set espionage comedy? Are you excited for Haywire?