George as Jack Foley again?

Elmore Leonard is bringing back Jack Foley, George’s character in Out of Sight, in his latest (not completed) novel “Road Dogs”.   Will George revisit this role? Here’s what Leonard has to say.

They also rather enjoyed Clooney a decade ago in “Out of Sight,” in which he played a bank robber who excuses himself from prison and then finds himself attracted to Jennifer Lopez as the U.S. Marshal sent to drag him back.

The Clooney character returns in “Road Dogs,” due out in May from HarperCollins.

Leonard says his publisher has gently complained when he sets books in the past, though as he points out, World War II Detroit “was the time I was in.” So he put “Road Dogs” in the here-and-now, and also brought back two other familiar characters, Cuban refugee and all-around louse Cundo Rey (“La Brava”) and psychic Dawn Navarro (“Riding the Rap”).

Clooney has not read the book, Leonard says, because he has other projects lined up. Another actor could play Foley, but that’s a tap-dance for several reasons, since Clooney is identified with the role and Universal Pictures owns the character.

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