The WGA clearly wants to send a signal. The guild has formulated strike rules that would impose an exceptionally aggressive stance on its 12,000 members...
Meanwhile, film deals move forward...
Michael Fleming:
Warner Bros.. is developing a screen version of Beau Willimon's play "Farragut North," with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star and George Clooney eyeing the project as director.
DiCaprio's Appian Way will produce with Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smoke House [production company]
Willimon is writing the script. Appian Way and Smoke House both sparked to the play after reading it, and a marriage was made at WB, where both Smokehouse and Appian Way have first-look deals. Clooney is considering taking an onscreen role.
[DiCaprio] is a young communications director for a fast-rising presidential candidate. During the course of the campaign, the idealistic young man falls prey to the backstabbing and other dirty trickery of seasoned rivals.
The play is headed for Broadway next year, with Mike Nichols reportedly in line to direct Jake Gyllenhaal in the thesp's Broadway debut.
Willimon worked for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential run, an experience that informed the play. While "Farragut North " has yet to be seen, the script has been circulating around Hollywood, leading to a quick transition to screenwriting for Willimon.
Aside from the WB pic adaptation, Willimon was tapped last week by director Marc Forster to adapt the 2002 British miniseries "The Jury" into a feature for Fox 2000. The director sought out the writer after reading "Farragut."
Timing of the screen version of the play hasn't been determined...
Find out what else DiCaprio and Clooney are up to here...
It was only a matter of time, I suppose, that 2 of Hollywood's most politically active stars would team up on a politic flick
With Gyllenhaal on stage with the play next year...Will the film version be here by 2009? Or are they waiting to see what happens with the strke...?
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