Download “The Men Who Stare at Goats” Movie
Director: Grant Heslov
Stars: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey
Studio: Overture Films
In Iraq, reporter Bob Wilton (McGregor) meets Lyn Cassady (Clooney), whose seemingly wild claim – that he’s a member of the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions – causes Wilton to join Cassady’s hunt for the battalion’s founder, whose gone missing.
I like it when Clooney has a full-fledged character to play and isn’t just in leading-man mode, and Kurt Wimmer’s book is too against-the-grain for any established studio to be interested in the adaptation, which is being handled by Clooney’s producing partner, Grant Heslov (his second picture as director). Enter Overture Films, who’s gunning for awards-season recognition with this project as well as Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story. Meanwhile, over at Sony, Clooney and Heslov will develop more mainstream fare after severing their decade-old relationship with Warner Bros. back in June.
