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What do you do if you are an A-list actor and Oscar nominated director? If you’re George Clooney, you ride the wave for all its worth and book yourself solid for a couple of years. Clooney currently has 7 projects in production or in the can including the highly anticipated and publicized Ocean’s 13. The prêt essential Hollywood “jack-of-all-trades” is working as producer, director, writer and actor in projects that will take him through to 2009.
Coming in 2007 Clooney will star with Renee Zellwigger in Leatherheads for Universal; a romantic comedy with a backdrop of ‘20s pro football. Clooney also penned the screenplay and helmed the pic. Also coming in 2007 is Clooney’s next teaming with Ocean’s 13 mate Steven Soderbergh in The Good German for Warner; based on a novel by Joseph Kanon. Clooney plays an American journalist in post-war Berlin searching for his former mistress. The pic costars Tobey Maquire and Cate Blanchett. Clooney still looks to keep to artistic roots by working the pseudo-independent network with White Jazz for Warner Independent Pictures. Clooney directs, produces and stars in a tale of a corrupt LAPD Vice Squad Lt. whose skills at skirting the rules are tested to the extreme when his bosses set him up to take the fall for a murder. Michael Carnahan takes scribe credits for the pic. Following that project, Clooney is set to helm The Belmont Boys for Ocean’s series producer Jerry Weintraub. The tale will follow seven thieves who nearly pull off their greatest caper ever and reunite 30 years later to pick up where they left off. Already in the can for the Clooney continuum is another Warner project; Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton, a flick which Gilroy also penne. The 2008 project will star Clooney in the title role as a New York attorney who learns too late that years of cleaning up after high profile clients can come back to haunt him in what will be the last and worst days of his life.
Fans of the star should take heart in knowing that for at least the next two years they will be able to get a fix of their fav every few months as the actor pushes forward despite his battles with his health that included a back injury and a malaria scare in August. Clooney’s schedule may come to haunt the actor however; according to a source close to the Clooney camp quoted on pagesix.com “George was very thin and exhausted for a time. But he is the consummate professional … and never complained.”