Saturday, August 18, 2012

Geroge Clooney Bails Out Wall Street


George Clooney is the 'The $700 Billion Man.'

Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smoke House production company will produce a film about the Wall Street bailout. According to Variety, the project -- based on Laura Blumenfeld's 2009 Washington Post article about TARP mastermind Neel Kashkari -- is being developed as a potential directing vehicle for Clooney.

Kashkari was a top official under then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and helped develop the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that bailed out the big banks following the economic collapse in 2008. Kashkari eventually left Washington and moved to an isolated cabin in Northern California.

Zach Helm ('Stranger Than Fiction') will write the screenplay.

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