The trade reports that The Challenge will be a potential directing, writing and starring vehicle for the actor.
Clooney’s persistence is believed to have played a key role in persuading Mahler to sign with Smoke House.
Salim Hamdan was sentenced on August 7, 2008, by a panel of military officers at Guantanamo Bay, to a sentence of 66 months, including time served. The Yemeni-born prisoner was found guilty of material support for terrorism but cleared of the more serious charges of conspiracy to commit murder, seen as a victory by some legal analysts. The author is planning to update the paperback edition to include Hamdan’s trial verdict, but it is unclear where Clooney’s film adaptation will end.