“Ides of March” Opens Venice Film Festival
After opening with Darren Aronofsky‘s Black Swan last year, the director is returning to preside over the jury of the 68th Venice Film Festival. Following in Black Swan‘s large footsteps, Deadline announced that George Clooney‘s next directing effort, The Ides of March, has been selected to open the fest on August 31st.
Kicking off the first of the major fall film festivals, Ides is based on Beau Willimon‘s play Farragut North, and stars Clooney himself, as well as Ryan Gosling, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. Taking place during Ohio primaries, as Clooney plays a character vying for the Democratic nomination, the drama involves dirty politics and scandals.
The Ides of March will hit theaters just over a month after its premiere, on October 7th via Sony Pictures.