George Clooney set to direct new project The Yankee Commandante
Deadline first reported that Focus Features has acquired the rights to produce a feature film based on David Grann's May 28th article in the The New Yorker magazine entitled THE YANKEE COMMANDANTE. George Clooney is set to direct the project and will produce it along with his Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov.The 51-year-old actor and film director George Clooney was recently announced as the director of new project The Yankee Commandante. Deadline first reported that Focus Features has acquired the rights to produce a feature film based on David Grann's May 28th article in the The New Yorker magazine entitled THE YANKEE COMMANDANTE. George Clooney is set to direct the project and will produce it along with his Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov.
Grann's article focused on William Alexander Morgan, an American who aided Castro and the Cuban rebels in their overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. Morgan reached the status of 'Comandante', making him the only foreigner besides Argentinia's Che Guevara to reach that post. Morgan is described as "a shadowy man whose motives for being there were subject to suspicion." He was eventually put in prison and faced the possibility of being put before a firing squad due to his work with United States intelligence agencies. At the time, the American government was unsure of Morgan's motives or loyalites.
Clooney most recently directed The Ides of March, and received an Academy Award nomination for The Descendants. Ides of March also scooped Best Screenplay - Intrnational at Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. He recently produced the Ben Affleck-directed Argo and stars with Sandra Bullock in the upcoming space adventure Gravity. It was not reported exactly when production for The Yankee Commandante is set to set to start. In January, Clooney was picked to work on the WWII film The Monuments Men for Sony. He will also star in the film.
Clooney has recently celebrated his 51st anniversary (June 5th) and is plannin a trip to Italy with his girlfriend Stacy Keibler, where they will also celebrate their one-year anniversary at the same place they fall in love - at his villa in Lake Como.
added on Monday 24th July 2023