/Film reports that George Clooney is now set to direct Matt Damon in a dramatization of the Hamdan vs. Rumsfield case (see Wikipedia). The film tells the story in which “the supreme court found in favor of Swift (Damon) and his client Hamdan and held that military commissions to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lacked “the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949.”
We reported this news last February, with Aaron Sorkin adapting the script. Female First quoted Matt Damon speaking at the premiere of The Informant! on how he ended up taking the role from Clooney:
George just wasn’t right for the part, thank God, so I got to play it. He gets enough good roles, he doesn’t need all the good ones, he’s got to leave some for the rest of us.
This sounds like a great project with everyone involved. I loved Damon in The Informant! and with Sorkin writing this political drama, I’m very interested in this project.
What do you think about Clooney directing Damon and Sorkin writing?