Clooney One of Alexander Payne's 'Descendants'

George Clooney may have found his next project. He has three films in theaters in the next two months - The Men Who Stare at Goats, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Up in the Air. Then he's got The American with Anton Corbjin, which he's filming now in Italy. But now he has an Alexander Payne movie in his future.

Clooney will begin shooting The Descendants next February in Hawaii, reports Variety. It'll be Payne's first movie as a director since...uh...Sideways? Yes, that's the one. That's five years ago, if you can believe it. Instead of directing, Payne has been in the shadows as a producer on a handful of films since. But he's back again, although uncharacteristically, he's not writing this time. Perhaps the fact that his last screenplay credit is I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry tells us something.

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