George Clooney Descends Into Payne
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George Clooney is making a Sideways move. The creator of Sideways, meanwhile, is making a George Clooney move.
The star is teaming up with Sideways' Oscar-winning writer-director, Alexander Payne, for The Descendants, a no doubt Academy-baiting dramedy due out in 2010.
Per Variety, the film (Payne's first since 2004's wine-soaked statue collector) will follow a wealthy landowner who, in attempt to keep his family together, picks up sticks with his two daughters on a quest to find his wife's new lover.
The hard part will be getting the audience to believe anyone would leave Clooney in the first place.
Cameras roll this February in Hawaii (it's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it).
Meanwhile, honing his craft in a much less idyllic locale is Owen Wilson, who's looking to reprise his dog-day success of Marley & Me by voicing the titular canine Marmaduke in Fox's live-action/CGI adaptation of the long-running comic strip.
The film, which also features the pipes of Fergie, Steve Coogan, George Lopez, Damon and Marlon Wayans, is due out next June.
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