Matt Damon set to join George Clooney’s Monument movie
Matt Damon has entered talks to join George Clooney’s next directorial outing, The Monuments Men, according to Deadline.
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.
Clooney and partner Grant Heslov have adapted the screenplay from Robert M Edsel’s book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History.
The film shares much of the same crew as Ben Affleck’s Argo, which Clooney produced.
Damon will next be seen in sci-fi action drama Elysium and Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem.
The Monuments Men will begin shooting on March 1, 2013, in Europe.
