George Clooney might be joining the ranks of Paul Giamatti, Jack Nicholson and Reese Witherspoon as he is currently looking to topline The Descendants for Alexander Payne. If production does indeed begin in February, we could see Clooney in a Payne-branded comedy by year's end. The project was set into motion by Fox Searchlight in 2007.
Scripted by Blacklist regulars Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, this is based on the Kaui Hart Hemmings novel, set in Hawaii, the unconventional family drama tells the story of a newly widowed father -- the descendant of landowners and one of the richest men on Oahu -- who takes off with his two rebellious daughters to track down his wife's lover on the island of Kauai.
There'll be plenty of casting to do before the holidays begin. We need a pair of daughters aged 17 and 10 and who can deliver some lip service much like Anna Kendrick did with Clooney in Up in the Air. The film also needs a girlfriend in a coma and a sun-bleached supporting male actor who probably becomes involved in the film's story-line around or past the midway point.
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Posted by bunyan 10 on 2010-01-09 at 21:17:31
Hoping that the long rich Clooney will FINALLYndo the right thing and out Hollywood and medianfor being on suck-up all fours before the direct heirs of the most awesome genocidal monsters in history ---across the Pacific.nnBad enough Hollywood never came outnabout the Soviet genocide when it matteredn(62 million killed -latest Univ. of Hawaiinstudy)nn-or came out about the reality of the HIVnscurge when it would have made a differencen(40 million dead and 100 million infectednworldwide)nn-or addressed the Boomer generation and beyond's 45 million exterminations of thenunborn ---largely in the name of 'convenience'nnBUT NOW they're turning their backs on thenstaggering legacy of their 'fave' creditors.nn70 million ---murdered in 'peacetime'n(latest accepted scholarly estimaten-ACCEPT NONE OF OUR SOLDOUT MEDIA'S DOWNSIZINGS) that you'll never be hearing so much as a quality reference to in any Hollywood film ---EVER! ABSOLUTE FACTnnAnything for those vast market favorsn---eh boys?nnANYTHINGnnANYTHING