George Clooney to direct and act in The Monuments Men

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George Clooney to direct and act in The Monuments Men

Clooney has bought the rights to Robert M Edsel’s book about government efforts to retrieve artworks stolen by the Nazis during the second world warWith two films – The Descendants and The Ides of March – featuring heavily in the Oscars race, George Clooney has announced his next directorial project. Clooney has bought the rights to Robert M Edsel’s The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, an account of government efforts to retrieve artworks stolen by the Nazis during the second world war.