was a disappointment by comparison to his other films, and we've seen a ton of other movies on the subject released in just the last year. They're good, but emotionally draining if you care about that sort of thing. But if somebody's going to do another one, the guy I'd want to see do it is George Clooney. Variety reports that Clooney is set to produce and possibly direct a film based on Laura Blumenfeld's article in The Washington Post, 'The $700 Billion Man". The story covers the fall from grace of Neel Kashkari, a senior advisor to US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and overseer of the Troubled Asset Relief Program(TARP) which bailed out the country's big banks in 2008. After the whole thing went down, Kashkari was left to fend for himself against Congress. Kashkari ultimately resigned, and fled to an isolated cabin in the woods of Nevada County, CA.
Zach Helm(Stranger than Fiction
) is set to pen the script. It's another politically charged flick from Clooney, who I think is making those types of movies better than anyone right now. He's currently shooting The Ides of March, about the 2004 Democratic primary campaign of Howard Dean. In 2005 he wrote and directed Good Night, and Good Luck
, about journalist Edward R. Morrow's on-air conflict with US Senator Joseph McCarthy.
