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...Hollywood. "Once I started to learn about McCarthyism and about what Murrow did, the story struck me as very relevant to what's going on today with this Administration and things like the Patriot Act," says Canadian-born Skoll. Nonetheless, Skoll also passed on making the script, which George Clooney had originally cowritten as a four-part television show. But when Skoll spent time with Clooney in Dubai during the filming of Syriana, the two talked for hours about history. Clooney explained his vision for the film, frame by frame, and Skoll was sold. He believed the film would meld...
Skoll's bet on movies with a message may pay off yet. Syriana, Participant's venture with Clooney, and its third and most ambitious movie to date, opened nationwide in late November and has received favorable reviews and plenty of buzz. Based on the book See No Evil by former cia operative Robert Baer, the film looks at the danger of U.S. reliance on Middle Eastern oil. The film may earn back its investment. But Skoll cares even more about its spurring a serious discussion on alternative energy. In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club...
...Hill. Gaghan, Oscar winner for his screenplay for “Traffic,” formats the film in a similar style, choreographing the careful intersections of multiple plots and characters through common dependencies. The writing and acting manage to successfully illustrate Gaghan’s complicated themes. George Clooney quietly reveals the vulnerability of his character, disillusioned CIA agent Bob Barnes, without showy heroism. Playing against his suave, macho type, the former Sexiest Man Alive gained over 30 pounds for the role and seems as trapped in his body as his character is trapped by the machinations of shadowy...
...decided that Americans needed a good dose of hot-button issues. In Shakespearean tragic tones, here’s what you’ve got coming: “Something’s rotten in the State of the Middle East”—The George Clooney-Matt Damon vehicle “Syriana” expands into national release, and a kaleidoscopic story chronicling the nasty effects of the global oil industry couldn’t have come at a better time. If you didn’t notice, oil is a problematic commodity, and crazy stuff...
...cute neighbor on TV’s “The Facts of Life,” to the suave Dr. Doug Ross of “ER,” to the debonair Danny Ocean in “Ocean’s 11,” George Clooney has secured his role as one of America’s permanent sex symbols. Clooney claims that his most recent roles—writing, producing, and starring in “Syriana” and writing, directing and acting in the journalistic docudrama “Good Night, and Good...