George Clooney is in talks to play the lead role in 'The Tourist', the big screen adaptation of the Olen Steinhauer novel.
According to Variety, Anthony Peckham, who wrote the screenplay for next years Nelson Mandela biopic 'The Human Factor' is on board to write the script for the Warner Brothers film.
'The Tourist' is a contemporary international thriller about a spy who risks everything to reveal a conspiracy after he's accused of a crime he didn't commit.
Clooney will next be seen in the Joel and Ethan Coen Brothers-directed 'Burn after Reading', which co-stars Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton.
