George Clooney has bought the rights to Jonathan Mahler's legal thriller "The Challenge," about the long campaign waged by U.S. Navy lawyer Charles Swift and Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal to ensure a fair trial for Salim Hamdan, the bodyguard and driver of Osama bin Laden.
The project will be developed through Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smoke House shingle. As with any Smoke House project, "The Challenge" remains a potential directing, writing and starring vehicle for Clooney.
A spokesman for Clooney confirmed that no decision had been made yet on what exact role Clooney would take on the project, although I would assume that the role of idealistic lawyer Swift may prove a good fit for the actor.
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