George Clooney to Adapt and Become One of the ‘Monuments Men’

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George Clooney and his frequent writer/production partner Grant Heslov (pictured above) have largely focused on awards-friendly fare and “Oscar bait,” including Good Night, and Good Luck, the Clooney-starring and Heslov-produced The American and the 2011 political drama, The Ides of March. Even their comical collaborations (ex. Leatherheads) are considered only semi-mainstream flicks.

The pair’s next team effort will be both (somewhat) more commercial and big-budgeted: The Monuments Men, a WWII thriller that chronicles the U.S. Government’s efforts to recapture precious artwork stolen by the Nazi regime.

Monuments Men will be based on the historical non-fiction work “The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History” by Robert M. Edsel. It tells the tale of how a special team composed of “American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others” were brought together, in order to travel around Europe (in the aftermath of D-Day) and track down the innumerable cultural and artistic artifacts claimed by Adolf Hitler and his followers. Edsel’s book focuses specifically on six of those “Monuments Men.”

http://screenrant.com/george-clooney-monuments-men-sandy-146480/

Save your google-juice, kiddos - I've already done the heavy lifting.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...Joes-to-the-Rescue-of-Rembrandts-and-Raphaels

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Sounds cool. I love art history even more than world war two history.

 

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How Matt Damon and George Clooney will look like in period drama "The Monuments Men" has been uncovered. The two male leads were recently spotted filming the movie at the Palais Am Festungsgraben in Berlin, Germany.

Read more: http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00058959.html#ixzz2OeQQ0XwV

 

[Stray Cat]

Mr. Damon looking dashing as always!
...and now I can't wait for the film.

 

[Edward]

Nice to see photos starting to come out. We discussed this a while back from the specific angle of the jackets (Aero are making leather to be worn in the film, though we have no idea whether civilian or military models, despite the fuss some now-banned troll tried to kick up - http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...llywood-WW2-Film-quot-The-Monuments-Men-quot& ).

In that picture Clooney seems to be wearing modern outerwear (presumably directing a scene he isn't in, or between takes?). Damon looks good - to my untrained eye, the uniform looks spot on.

 

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£1bn haul of art treasures seized by Nazis found in squalid Munich flat: 1,500 works by masters such as Picasso, Renoir and Matisse hidden behind tins of noodles, fruit and beans

More than 1,500 paintings found including pieces by Picasso and Matisse
Collector Hildebrandt Gurlitt ordered for them to be destroyed in 1945
But in a routine search on a train from Switzerland to Germany, his son was caught with 9,000 euros cash earned from an illicit art deal
Officials searched his small rented apartment in Munich and found the art
Experts claim most were acquired from Jews in exchange for escape


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...atisse-squalid-Munich-flat.html#ixzz2jnssENAt

 

[Feraud]

Not sure if it was mentioned but Clooney's film has been pushed back for release in 2014.