The filmmaker behind “The Ides of March” and the star of “The Descendants” announced at the Palm Springs International Film Festival that his next movie will be the World War II story “The Monuments Men,” a look at the art historians who landed at Normandy to rescue art looted by Adolf Hitler.
Clooney said he and producing partner Grant Heslov will adapt the 2009 book by Robert Edsel, with Clooney directing and co-starring in the film for Sony Pictures.
The group of 11 civilian art experts who took part in the rescue included Lincoln Kirstein, the founder of the New York City Ballet; George Stout, who worked at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum; and James J. Rorimer, from the Metropolitan Museum.
George Clooney’s next movie: World War II art drama: [ LA Times ]
