Clooney, DiCaprio Up for North
How's this for a hot ticket?
Hollywood powerhouses George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio may be hitting the campaign trail together, costarring onscreen for the first time in Farragut North, a political drama loosely inspired by the 2004 upstart candidacy of presidential hopeful Howard Dean.
Both actors are in early talks, according to the trades. Clooney is also considering directing the Warner Bros. project, which is based on the upcoming Broadway play by former Dean staffer Beau Willimon.
The story revolves around a young communications director who goes to work for an insurgent presidential wannabe. The fast-rising candidacy is ultimately derailed by veteran politicos skilled in the art of backstabbing and dirty tricks.
North has attracted much buzz in Hollywood on the basis of its starry Broadway production. Mike Nichols will direct Jake Gyllenhaal onstage, the role DiCaprio will presumably play in the movie. The stage version will premiere early next year.
Clooney and DiCaprio would also produce through their respective shingles, Smoke House and Appian Way productions. Both companies are based on the Warner lot.
No start date has been set for the film.
Clooney, 46, is currently in theaters taking on corporate corruption in the legal thriller Michael Clayton.
The Oscar winner already has two films in the pipeline for 2008: the Coen brothers spy comedy Burn After Reading and the 1920s football comedy Leatherheads, which he also directed.
DiCaprio, meanwhile, is in Morocco with Russell Crowe, filming Ridley Scott's Body of Lies, about the hunt for a terrorist mastermind in Jordan.
The 32-year-old actor recently completed Revolutionary Road, a family drama reteaming him with Titanic costar Kate Winslet and directed by Sam Mendes. DiCaprio is also eyeing another big-screen reunion, this time with Martin Scorsese for the biopic The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.
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