Cheadle, Clooney & Soderbergh want to do more Elmore

By Patrick Sauriol     March 27, 2003
Source: Variety

Proving they're still pals, George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh have agreed to produce Don Cheadle's first film as director. Cheadle is adapting Elmore Leonard's TISHOMINGO BLUES as a movie, based on a script by John Richards (NURSE BETTY).

Clooney and Soderbergh will work on the film through their producing company, Section Eight Films. It's not the first Leonard adaptation for the trio: back in 1998 you may recall that Soderbergh directed Clooney and Cheadle in OUT OF SIGHT. They also reunited in the remake of OCEAN'S ELEVEN.

Cheadle would also play a role in the film which is about a high diver working for a Mississippi casino who witnesses a mob murder from 80 feet in the air. Things get complicated when a con artist-turned-drug runner, a corrupt sheriff, an honest policeman and a reenactment of a famous Civil War battle intrude upon the precedings. Casting is underway.

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