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Twelve Pair Visit Syriana
Matt Damon and George Clooney come back together for political thriller.
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
By Mark Umbach
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Matt Damon and George Clooney, who are currently working together on Steven
Soder~bergh's Ocean's Eleven sequel - Ocean's Twelve, will reteam
for the Stephen Gaghan-helmed political thriller Syriana. In addition,
Amanda Peet is in final negotiations to join the project. Set up at Warner Bros.,
Clooney and Soderbergh's studio-based Section Eight will produce the project
with shooting slated to begin during the summer.
Gaghan adapted the script, which is loosely based on the Robert Baer non-fiction
novel See No Evil: The True Story of a Foot Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism.
Syriana stars Damon as Bryan Woodman, a financial advisor who reps a
Middle Eastern country's oil interests. Clooney will play Baer, a former CIA
agent who was tracking terrorist cells. Peet would star as Woodman's wife, who
must console her husband during a family tragedy. In the vein of Traffic,
the story will intertwine several storylines and characters involving the CIA,
foreign policy, the oil industry and terrorism.
Michael Nozik will produce Syriana with Clooney and Soderbergh, while
Section Eight's Jennifer Fox and Ben Cosgrove are executive producing with Georgia
Kacandes.
Damon will soon be seen in The Bourne Supremacy, the sequel to the 2002
blockbuster hit The Bourne Identity. He also recently filmed The Brothers
Grimm, co-starring Heath Ledger, and will soon be wrapping production on
Twelve. Damon's repped by Endeavor.
Peet, recently seen in Something's Gotta Give, is repped by Gersh. She
will soon be seen in Nigel Cole's A Lot Like Love and Woody Allen's Melinda
and Melinda.
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