George Clooney Tried to Talk Ben Affleck Out of Playing Batman
Clooney’s notorious “Batman & Robin” experience led the actor to unsuccessfully try to persuade Affleck not to follow in his footsteps.
Clooney’s notorious “Batman & Robin” experience led the actor to unsuccessfully try to persuade Affleck not to follow in his footsteps.
“It’s just not my style to take everybody to task that way,” Clooney told Howard Stern of Cruise’s on-set outburst.
Equal parts “Gravity,” “The Martian,” and “The Thing,” Clooney’s Netflix thriller is engaging but overly familiar.
Clooney was honored at the Museum of Modern Arts’ annual Film Benefit.
The director and star had to contend with a VFX crash course, a pregnant leading lady, and an Arctic windstorm.
“It was a horrible story that I later got him back for,” Clooney says.
The Washington Post’s review of “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” got Clooney fired up.
Clooney describes the project as “Gravity” meets “The Revenant,” which means Netflix could have a monster holiday hit on its hands.
Clooney returns to the space genre as a director after acting in Steven Soderbergh’s “Solaris” and Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity.”
Clooney enters the post-apocalyptic world on his adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s acclaimed novel, and the movie will debut on Netflix later this year.
“If I wasn’t gay, they would never say those things,” the director said of the George Clooney-starring “Batman and Robin.”
Production designer David Gropman and cinematographer Martin Ruhe put us up close and tight inside the B-25s with Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) and the other bombardiers.