Fresh off the success of Jason Reitman's Up in the Air at film festivals across the country, George Clooney will be starring in a film called The American for relatively unknown director Anton Corbijn.
Focus Features is behind the movie, which shares plot elements with the fantastic Martin McDonagh film In Bruges. Clooney plays an American assassin who retreats to the Italian countryside after a hit gone bad.
This will be Corbijn's second directorial effort, and as much as I'd like to write this off as a complete knock off of In Bruges, Clooney's involvement makes me hesitate before making that blanket statement. If you look at the roles he's chosen in his career, it seems like he rarely makes bad decisions and always seems to make interesting choices, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
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George Clooney defecates solid gold spheres (perfect spheres, no less) and cries liquid uranium. He can also make women squeal in ecstasy by thinking in their general direction.
I don't think it's up to us to judge his next cinematic roles. We should just pay for the movie ticket now before he sells us into human slavery on the streets of Rome.
P.S. Ancient Rome, cause he can time travel...
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