George Clooney plans to return as a director:

George Clooney plans to return as a director with the adaptation of the play “Farragut North,” a political drama for which you want to have Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and Chris Pine.

According to Vulture blog today unveiled the magazine’s New York Magazine, the shooting of the film, with screenplay by Beau Willimon former Democratic adviser, could begin in February.

Willimon decided to write the script after working with former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean, when he ran for the primaries in 2004.

The story takes place in Des Moines (Iowa), weeks before the caucuses in that state Democrat, and follows the adventures of a young analyst and his dirty tricks to get the candidate for whom he works to get the nomination against rival .

According to the publication says, Chris Pine will be responsible for giving life to that character, which was originally intended for Leonardo DiCaprio. Hoffman would play him and Giamatti superior to the organizer of the rival candidate’s campaign.

George Clooney, who previously signed on as director of “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (2002), “Good Night, and Good Luck” (2005) and “Leatherheads” (2008), also plans to offer two separate papers Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei.

The actor in the series “Ocean’s Eleven” would reserve a small role, the candidate’s character, a character who appears in the stage version and which is reduced to a few scenes in the film’s script.

George Clooney opens today in the U.S. “The American” about a murderer who is part of the quiet Italian rural life just before taking one last assignment.