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Titolo: George Clooney has cast Noah Wyle to star in "Fail-Safe" [ENGLISH]

Sono circolate questo notizie su un film  tv per CBS che  george dovrebbe
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'Fail-Safe' alarm set for April
    George Clooney is looking to sink a hole in one April 9 when CBS will 
    carry his ambitious live restaging of the 1964 nuclear thriller "Fail-
    Safe" in primetime on the heels of its coverage of the Masters golf 
    tournament. Director Stephen Frears ("Dangerous Liaisons") is close 
    to signing on to direct the black-and-white production, which will 
    unfold over two stages on the Warner Bros. lot. Clooney's former "ER" 
    co-star Noah Wyle has been set for a key role. Walter Bernstein, who 
    adapted the novel by Harvey Wheeler and Eugene Burdick for the 1964 
    Sidney Lumet production, will again serve as screenwriter. Director 
    John Frankenheimer, a veteran of TV's fabled live dramatic anthology 
    shows of the 1950s, will serve as a consultant on the project. 
    Clooney's labor of love to bring "Fail-Safe" to the small screen is 
    believed to be the first feature-length dramatic production beamed 
    out live by a broadcast network since "Playhouse 90" ended its four-
    year run on CBS in 1960.
LOS ANGELES (UltimateTV.com) -  George Clooney has
cast Noah Wyle, his pal from "ER," to star in CBS'
live restaging of the 1964 film "Fail-Safe." Clooney
will not act in the special but is exec-producing the
nuclear thriller, which tells the story of an American
pilot accidentally ordered to nuke Moscow. In keeping
with Clooney's homage to the "Playhouse 90" era, the
piece will be shot in black and white. 
John Frankenheimer, a veteran of TV's live dramatic
anthology shows of the 1950s, will be on hand as a
consultant, and Stephen Frears ("Hero" ) is likely to
direct.
The production will air April 9 after the peacock's
Masters golf tournament coverage. 
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A quanto sembra George è fissato col Live in tv!!! ;o)
A little more about Fail Safe found on another newsgroup:
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Clooney to star in remake of "Fail Safe":
George Clooney is set to star in a TV remake of the classic fake docudrama 
"Fail Safe" -- to be performed live to air, according to The Hollywood 
Reporter. 
Clooney and his "ER" pal Noah Wyle are set to star, with "Dangerous
Liasons"
director Stephen Frears to direct "Fail Safe," which is to air April 9.
The 
original telecast mimicked an actual emergency broadcast during a nuclear 
emergency. 
The Hollywood Reporter said remaking "Fail Safe" as a live telecast is a 
"labor of love" for Clooney, who was the driving force behind "ER's" 1997 
live-to-air episode.  The remade "Fail Safe" will mark the first live 
telecast of a feature-length drama since the "Playhouse 90" series of the
50s 
and 60s.
Director John Frankenheimer, who helmed many live dramas of that era, will 
act as a consultant on the series, The Hollywood Reporter said. 
"'Fail-Safe' is my favorite movie of all time, and it is just really
exciting 
that it is all coming together at CBS," Clooney said. 
"It's been a long, long push for us, and now we're really getting into 
figuring out how to do it.  We're going to try to use the older-style
lenses 
as much as possible.  We're going to really move those cameras and tell the
story like they did on 'Playhouse 90.'" 
Clooney told The Hollywood Reporter he would like his production company, 
Maysville Pictures, to put together a live dramatic broadcast up to three 
times a year. 
"Maybe by taking a step backward and tipping our hat to TV's past, we might
make TV today a little more interesting," he said.  
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