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Grant Heslov to direct
George Clooney’s long-time bud and producing partner Grant Heslov (you may remember, he was the dude with the thing for chimps in “Congo”) will direct the former Batman in “Men Who Stare at Goats”, says Variety.
The ‘movie film’, as Borat would say, is an adaptation of British journalist Jon Ronson’s book about the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, a unit that was to use paranormal powers. The title refers to the notion that one can kill a goat by staring at it. Very Nice, how much?
The script was penned by Brit Peter Straughan (“How to Lose Friends and Alienate People”). The project has been around for some time, but international buyers only just received the script this week as the Cannes fest and market got started.
