What a great day for movie news it’s turning out to be with trailers for Her and The Counselor arriving, some new exciting TIFF 2013 titles and now the first official picture from George Clooney‘s Monuments Men arrives.
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.
Clooney is directing from a screenplay he wrote with Grant Heslov and he also stars alongside Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville and John Goodman with a December 18 release date currently in place.
The Oscar prospects for this one are clearly through the roof and it is already placed high on my prediction charts, but at the same time this is the first we’ve seen of the film outside set pics from a while back. We’ll see how it all turns out soon though.
