But wait, why is this here? Betcha didn't know
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. had a comic book series, ah but they did. And if you did know that, shame on you and get out of your mother's basement.
The show was about two agents that worked for the United Network Command for Law enforcement, so U.N.C.L.E for short. Of course they fight an evil organization called THRUSH. Plot sound familiar? Yah, it should, the show was a ripoff of James Bond, and then it was ripped off by
Get Smart so what comes around goes around.
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Sources very close to the director tell us an A-lister is already in talks with Soderbergh to star in the picture and that star would be none other than “Ocean’s 11-13” actor, George Clooney.
We’re also told that as awesome as this sounds, “The Man From U.N.C.L.E” is still very much in its early stages. However, WB chief Jeff Robinov has signed off on Soderbergh’s original take on the material, which would not modernize the film and keep it set in the director’s beloved 1960s
Another plan is to start from scratch which would mean throwing out all the old existing scripts (various iterations penned by Max Borenstein and David Campbell Wilson once for David Dobkin, now a producer on the project and Doug Liman who eventually passed). So Scott Z. Burns, who wrote Soderbergh’s “The Informant,” “Contagion,” and recently turned in his draft of “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea” for David Fincher, would essentially start from a blank page and the idea is to “take back ‘U.N.C.L.E’ to its roots.” We’re also told the Clooney/Soderbergh plan is being seen as their “last film together,” presumably because the helmer is still thinking about the early retirement he’s been envisioning for a few months now.
“The Man From U.N.C.L.E” could start filming at the end of 2011