George Clooney's penchant for farm animals has won him the backing of a distributor for his new comedy The Men Who Stare At Goats. Overture Films have picked up the property, based on the book by Jon Ronson about a hapless reporter who falls in with a Special Forces Agent.
Clooney plays the agent who leads said journalist (played by Ewan McGregor) into a secret operations unit, tasked with ending war by utilising the supernatural.
The film is directed by Grant Heslov who worked with Clooney on Good Night, And Good Luck, and co-stars Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. The script was written by **How to Lose Friends & Alienate People's Peter Straughan.
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The Men Who Stare At Goats was shot between October 2008 and January 2009, so the final product should be ready to hit our screens later this year.