Clooney to direct DiCaprio in stage adaptation?

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Farragut North, a stage play that Clooney wants to direct as a feature adaptation says Variety. The movie is being setup at Warner Brothers, with the play's scribe Beau Williams penning the script and it looks like it will come down to a matter of timing as to whether the movie will get made with Clooney and DiCaprio both busy with several projects at the moment. Interestingly the play impressed Bond 22 director Marc Forster to hire the author Williams to pen his screenplay for The Jury last week and now she has found herself writing another feature film. Maybe her future lies in film?

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The play is a popular one and it should make it's Broadway debut later this year when Jake Gyllenhaal takes some time off away from film to star in the theatre production for British helmer Mike Nichols. I love both men's work. Leonardo DiCaprio for me has done four movies off the belt where he has transformed himself from being the pretty boy actor into one of the best Hollywood has to offer. A true star, that now has the chops to prove it. Clooney also is great. Like I said about Tom Hanks yesterday, he is a real force on screen in a way that people like James Stewart and Cary Grant use to be. He can weave out of things like Ocean's Thirteen and then lead something like Michael Clayton... and be totally unrecognisable. Both men pick their projects carefully and wisely. If they choose to film this one in the future, I have no doubts it will be great.