- George Clooney will make his Broadway debut in 2025
- The actor will play the lead role of Edward R Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck
- The move will mark the 20th anniversary since the release of the movie version, for which Clooney was nominated for the Best Director and Best Original Screenplay Academy Awards
He first starred in the movie almost 20 years ago.
And now George Clooney is set to play the lead role in a new stage adaptation of the 2005 film, Good Night, and Good Luck.
In his Broadway debut, the actor, 63, will take on the role of Edward R Murrow – played by David Strathairn in the movie – for the production, which will debut in Spring 2025.
The plot follows the true story of journalist and CBS TV host Murrow as he came under fire for suspected communism during the late 1950s as McCarthyism took hold.
The original movie saw Clooney play Fred W Friendly, as well as take on one of his first directing roles – for which he was nominated for an Oscar award.
He was also given a nod for Best Original Screenplay, after co-writing the adaptation with Grant Heslov – who will work with the Ocean’s Eleven actor to bring it to the stage.
The movie was nominated for a further four Academy Awards at the 2006 ceremony: Strathairn for Best Actor, Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction.
In a statement following the announcement of his involvement, Clooney said, “I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage, and especially to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to.”
Clooney will pass the director baton to the Tony award-winner David Cromer, whose resume includes The Band’s Visit and A Streetcar Named Desire.
“Edward R Murrow operated from a kind of moral clarity that feels vanishingly rare in today’s media landscape,” he said in a statement. “There was an immediacy in those early live television broadcasts that today can only be effectively captured on stage, in front of a live audience.”
