Saturday, October 6, 2012

THE MONUMENTS OF MEN (Cast News)


  • THE MONUMENTS OF MEN

George Clooney is preparing to enter pre-production on his next directorial effort, the WWII drama The Monuments Men, and his looking to cast a certain Frenchman in a role, namely Jean Dujardijn.

Jean Dujardin
Based on the book of the same name by Robert M. Edsel, the story centers on a group of art experts selected by the US Government to chase down the stolen art of Europe during World War II. 

The Wrap reports that Dujardin is being looked at for an unspecified role in the pic, while Cate Blanchett and Paul Giamatti are also being sought after for supporting roles. 

Blanchett would play Rose Valland, an art historian and member of the French Resistance, while Giamatti would play the co-founder of the New York City ballet, Lincoln Kirstein.

Talks are still in the very early stages, but production is set to get underway in Germany, Austria, and Paris next spring.

Read the synopsis for The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History below:

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: “degenerate” works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world’s great art from the Nazis.

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