George Clooney in Early Talks to Direct Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Echo’

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[size=42]George Clooney in Early Talks to Direct Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Echo’[/size]

BY [size=11]ADAM CHITWOOD      JUNE 20, 2018[/size]

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It appears that George Clooney is zeroing in on his next directorial project. Per Deadline, the filmmaker is in early talks to direct a sci-fi thriller called Echo for 20th Century Fox and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment. The original script by Christopher MacBride centers on a drone specialist who has a psychological crisis when he begins to suspect his lover is not who she appears to be: is he just paranoid, or has she been replaced?
The premise sounds very Westworld-y, and would mark a curious choice of material for Clooney as a director. The Oscar-winning performer made his directorial debut with the dark comedy Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and followed that up with a string of adult-oriented films: the political drama Good Night, and Good Luck., the screwball comedy Leatherheads, another political drama in The Ides of March, and the tame, old-fashioned war film The Monuments Men. Last year Clooney took a stab at an old Coen Brothers script with Suburbicon, attempting to recover from the disappointment of Monuments Men, but the Matt Damon-fronted dark comedy wasn’t too well received.
I stil think Clooney’s a good filmmaker though, and I’ll be first in line to see whatever he puts together. Currently, Clooney is directing the Hulu miniseries adaptation of Catch-22. He initially intended to star in the Joseph Heller adaptation, but subsequently replaced himself with Kyle Chandler.
It’s unclear if Clooney would also star in Echo, but it’s a curious choice of material regardless and I’m mighty curious to see what he does with it. It may be some time before this actually comes together, and since Clooney’s in early talks the deal could fall apart. But right now this is an intriguing possibility.[/size]

It's really an unusual choice for him, but I'm glad that he's exploring various genres.

Yes interesting choice though it kinda of reminds me of ‘Solaris’ a tiny bit.....  George seems to always like to challenge himself.  He doesn’t like to be pigeonholed with his film work.  Whether his movies are successful or not he likes to take chances with different genres.  It can be frustrating for his fans who always want him to succeed as a filmmaker and he has had his missteps along the way.  But he may not see it the same way that we do.

last year! in an interview to the newspaper "Le Parisien" Julianna revealed that George Clooney sent her sci-fi script and "we'll see what's gonna happen"! 


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maybe it's the same project

It's gonna be the end of me, if those two do a movie together.

I really hope George takes on Directing this project.