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George Clooney is time for the small screen.
The Oscar winner and Emmy nominee is scheduled to star and direct a series that is limited from the seminal Joseph Heller novel Catch-22.
The project that is six-episode generated by Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, will not yet have a network. The package, co-written by Luke Davies (Lion) and David Michod (War Machine), will soon be shopped next month. With an established star in Clooney, it really is expected to land a big fee at a deep-pocketed outlet.
Catch-22 was originally adapted into a 1970 Paramount feature film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin and Bob Newhart. Richard Dreyfuss later starred in an ABC half-hour pilot produced by Paramount Television in 1973 that never went forward.
Catch-22 is set in Italy during World War II and tells the story of Yossarian, a U.S. Air Force bombardier trying to fulfill his service requirements so they can go back home. The novel explored the paradox of requirements where airmen who felt mentally unfit to fly were not obligated to do this, but anyone who applied to get rid of flying was sane adequate to fly.
Clooney will play Col. Cathcart, the role initially played by Balsam within the Nichols feature. Continue lendo