George Clooney falls into Tourist trap

After optioning Olen Steinhauer's The Tourist last fall, Warner Brothers recently announced that Anthony Peckham will adapt the book into a screenplay as a star vehicle for George Clooney. Clooney's own Smokehouse production company will produce, with he, Grant Heslov and Nina Wolarsky to helm the project. The plot is about a man who (cue summer-movie announcer guy), accused of a murder he didn't commit, risks it all to unravel a conspiracy.

Clooney will also be providing the voice of the titular character in the upcoming animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, due to hit theaters in late 2009.

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