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The Artist star Jean Dujardin is being lined up for a role in The Monuments Men to bedirected by Hollywood star George Clooney.
The 40-year-old actor is in talks for a supporting part in the film, which is about a group of men and women whochased down the stolen art of Europe during World War II, reported Digital Spy. It is based on the book 'The Monuments Men: AlliedHeroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History' by Robert M Edsel.
Besides directing the film, Clooney will also star in it, playing George Stout, a US Army officer and leading artconservationist, who repatriated tens of thousands of pieces of art from the Nazis.He is also producing and writing the screenplay with Grant Heslov.
Elizabeth star Cate Blanchett is being lined up for the role of Rose Valland, an art historian and member of theFrench resistance, while Paul Giamatti is being touted to play Lincoln Kirstein, who co-founded the New York City ballet withGeorge Balanchine.
The film is will begin shooting in Germany, Austria, Paris and England next spring.
The 40-year-old actor is in talks for a supporting part in the film, which is about a group of men and women whochased down the stolen art of Europe during World War II, reported Digital Spy. It is based on the book 'The Monuments Men: AlliedHeroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History' by Robert M Edsel.
Besides directing the film, Clooney will also star in it, playing George Stout, a US Army officer and leading artconservationist, who repatriated tens of thousands of pieces of art from the Nazis.He is also producing and writing the screenplay with Grant Heslov.
Elizabeth star Cate Blanchett is being lined up for the role of Rose Valland, an art historian and member of theFrench resistance, while Paul Giamatti is being touted to play Lincoln Kirstein, who co-founded the New York City ballet withGeorge Balanchine.
The film is will begin shooting in Germany, Austria, Paris and England next spring.