A day after the Toronto Film Festival announced that it would host the North American premiere of The Ides of March, Columbia Pictures released a mesmerizing poster for director George Clooney’s political drama, starring Clooney, Ryan Gosling, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. “Is This Man Our Next President?” asks the cover of TIME magazine that Gosling’s campaign press secretary holds up in the poster. His face perfectly mirrors that of his boss, Clooney’s ambitious presidential candidate. Take a look. (UPDATE: So did TIME give its blessing to have the magazine featured in the poster? Says a spokesperson, “We gave the studio permission to use the TIME image. TIME is an iconic brand, we get many of these requests, as you’d imagine, and we turn many of them down. But, in this case, the use of the image is consistent with our brand, and it’s so visually compelling that we were delighted to allow them to use it.”)
The film takes place during Ohio’s Democratic presidential primary, and Gosling’s aide gets involved in a political scandal that could undermine his boss’ chances for the White House. Clooney also told USA Today, which has a collection of Ides photos, that he initially planned to make the movie, based on the play Farragut North, in 2008, but he decided the country was in too hopeful a mood during President Obama’s campaign for this cynical tale. “Now the cynicism seems to have come back,” he said.
This seems to be the perfect project for Clooney, who famously adores the complex, contrarian films of the 1970s — like Network and Three Days of the Condor — and his cast is amazing. (Hoffman and Paul Giamatti! Methinks they’ve probably auditioned for the same role once or twice over the years, so it will be thrilling to get to see them together in the same movie.)
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I’m getting a bedspread made of this one-sheet.
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LOL! Love it – you could sell those and make a fortune.
Well that’s disappointing, I was kind of hoping for a modern reinterpretation of the Rise and fall of Julius Ceaser. But then again I often dream of a knife fight breaking out in Senate, at this point that’s the only thing that might sort their BS out.
They’d have to retrieve their knives from America’s backs! Good observation though!
Actually, it is a modern day version of Julius, with Clooney being Ceaser of course. I worked on set as an extra for this movie, and let’s just say that Gosling is Caesar’s “best friend” (being Clooney’s campaign manager).
Oooh, I hadn’t heard about this movie, but it sounds amazing!
hahaha very cool picture.
Clooney usually doesn’t add up to huge boxoffice, but you have to admit that most of his films are very well made. I’m sure this will be another film worth taking a look at.
Not sure this film even needs a plot…
Ironically, that was Soderbergh’s approach to Ocean’s 12 and look how well THAT worked! lol
As long as Ryan Gosling takes off his shirt…well, even if he doesn’t take off his shirt, I am so there.
I never realized how close their bone structure was.
AMAZING PHOTO!
Terrific poster design. This could be another banner year for Clooney, between this and “The Descendants”.
Awesome poster! It was great to work 9 days on this film with these nice guys!
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