喬治·克魯尼有望加盟《祕密特工》

Just yesterday we found out that Steven Soderbergh was being lined up to direct an adaptation of 60s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which followed the adventures of American and Russian members of a secret agency called the United Network Command for Law & Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.). Now The Playlist has uncovered some more details on the adaptation including word that George Clooney, who has worked with Soderbergh on Solaris, The Good German, Out of Sight and all the Ocean's Eleven films, is already in talks to lead the project. However, it's not coming together immediately since development has only begun.

繼昨日消息，導演史蒂文-索德伯格即將開拍電影版《祕密特工》之後，今日又有男主角人選浮上水面。據國外電影媒體報道，大帥哥喬治-克魯尼或在此片中擔任男一號，而克魯尼和導演史蒂文已經是名副其實的“老搭檔”了，兩人合作的影片包括了《飛向太空2002》、《柏林迷宮》、《戰略高手》以及所有的《十一羅漢》系列。另據消息稱，這部電影不僅僅是簡單的重拍上世紀六十年代同名電視劇集，而計劃早於十多年前已經啓動，而華納影業摒棄了之前編劇的所有劇本。與索德伯格合作《告密者》的編劇斯科特-Z-本恩斯目前正在重新撰寫劇本。

Good news comes from the fact that this won't be an adaptation that simply modernizes an old TV series, but rather will stay in the 1960's and go back to the roots of what made the original series great. Though this project has been in the works since the 90's, Warner Bros. is apparently starting from scratch and will likely not use any of the previous scripts from Max Borenstein or David Campbell Wilson. Remember, Scott Z. Burns (who wrote The Informant! for Soderbergh) is writing the new version of the script, and if we're looking at a combination of the period feel of The Limey, the star and action of Ocean's Eleven and the subtle, satirical humor of The Informant!, then I think we're in for quite a great flick.

A bit of a curveball comes along with this news though since The Playlist says The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is apparently being viewed as the last film Clooney and Soderbergh will make together. If that's the case, it sounds like Soderbergh might follow through on his talk of retirement in July of 2009. He's certainly been firing off a lot of different projects lately, so maybe he's just making one last marathon run of features before leaving the film industry. It'll be quite disappointing to see him go, but at least he still has Liberace and hopefully this new project with Clooney to keep him around for a few more years. We'll keep you posted as this project continues development. Interested in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with George Clooney?

而另有媒體報道，這部《祕密特工》或許是喬治-克魯尼與史蒂文-索德伯格的“合作絕唱”，這不禁讓人聯想起導演在2007年7月時談到自己的退休計劃。索德伯格最近推掉了不少電影計劃，看起來《祕密特工》或許真是他告別影壇之作。