Release Date: 20 December 2013
Directed By: George Clooney
Writers & Screenplay By: George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Starring: Daniel Craig, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Matt Damon, Hugh Bonneville
Synopsis
Based on the book The Monuments Men written by Robert Edsel. During World War II, the U.S. government forms a crew of art historians and museum curators to recover renown works of art stolen by Nazis before Hitler destroys them.
The period film, which Clooney is co-writing and directing, centres on a real-life group of men and women who risked their lives to track down art stolen by Adolf Hitler during the second world war and prevent its destruction. If he signs up, Damon will join Clooney himself, Daniel Craig, Jean Dujardin, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Hugh Bonneville and Bob Balaban in the cast.
As well as directing – his fifth stint behind the camera – Clooney is to portray US army officer and leading art conservationist George Stout, who repatriated tens of thousands of pieces of art from the Nazis. Blanchett plays Rose Valland, an art historian and member of the French resistance. Damon and Craig's roles are as yet unclear but Clooney is searching for someone to portray New York City ballet co-founder and art connoisseur Lincoln Kirstein, who was personally involved with retrieving artworks around Munich and in the salt mines at Altaussee during the war. Paul Giamatti was at one point in line to play the latter role. Matt Damon is in talks to join the increasingly spectacular cast of George Clooney's forthcoming Nazi art drama The Monuments Men, according to Deadline.
Clooney's film is based on Robert Edsel's book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. It centres on the 11-month period between D-day and VE Day, when a taskforce of American and British art experts were charged with scouring Europe for lost and stolen art.
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