George Clooney’s Smokehouse Spies ‘Three Minutes To Doomsday’ Film Rights

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George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures Acquires Film Rights to ‘Three Minutes to Doomsday’

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April 12, 2015 | 04:00PM PT

Alex Stedman

News Editor, Variety.com@a_sted


George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures has picked up the film rights to Joe Navarro’s “Three Minutes to Doomsday.”
The book follows the FBI’s leading body language expert, Navarro, who was sent to track down Rod Ramsey to report on his knowledge or association with Clyde Lee Conrad, an U.S. Army officer who sold top-secret classified information to the People’s Republic of Hungary. It documents Navarro and Ramsey’s relationship and interviews against the backdrop of the Cold War.
Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, recently acquired North American rights for the book.
Howards Means, who collaborated with Robert Baer on “See No Evil” and “Sleeping With the Devil,” assisted Navarro in his writing. “Syriana,” for which Clooney won an Oscar, was based on Baer’s books.
Smokehouse most recently produced “August: Osage County,” starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, the Clooney-directed “Monuments Men” and Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning “Argo.” Coming up, the production company will produce David Gordon Green’s “Our Brand Is Crisis” and Jodie Foster’s “Money Monster.”
Steve Ross and Paul Weitzman represent Navarro for Abrams Artists Agency.

Thanks Way2 and Sevens.  George and Grant have been very busy lately acquiring the rights To a bunch of projects..  This one sounds like its right of George's alley.

Wow yes Donnamarie....busy busy, but hopefully
plenty of R&R time on Lake Como to come soon.

"an U.S. Army officer who sold top-secret classified information to the People’s Republic of Hungary"

Interesting, this sounds like Snowden

This is the guy who advised the author of the book

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Wrote a book which ended up being 'Syriana'...........

The book has already been listed on Amazon though it won't come out until next April.
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