Obama backer George Clooney plans a movie on Osama bin Laden’s driver
By Behind The Scenes TV on Aug 12, 2008 in Actors, In-Development, News
George Clooney, one of Hollywood’s most prominent backers of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president, has bought the movie rights to tell the story of Osama bin Laden’s drive
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It may be a controversial project.
Clooney’s movie production company, Smokehouse, bought the book rights from journalist Jonathan Mahler, who in “The Challenge” tells the story of Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni resident of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in recent years after his capture for being the driver of Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden.
(LA Times)
