George Clooney’s “Men Who Stare at Goats” Gears for Spring or Summer Release

It’ll be a spring or summer release for George Clooney’s “Men Who Stare at Goats,” the inspired-by-real-life tale of attempts to use psychic powers in the army a couple decades ago. Clooney stars and produces, his longtime collaborator Grant Heslov directs, and the cast also includes Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges and Stephen Root.

Root, who previously worked with Heslov and Clooney doing “Leatherheads,” says he’s hoping for a summer release for maximum attention for the flick, “which is the way it seems to be going.” He claims that the new film contains “concrete evidence that psychic powers exist.” As for his own view, “I’m certainly open to the thought that there are things you can’t see, mental things that go on.

I think it’s just interesting that this actually happened in our armed forces. There are supposedly some things that came through this [psychic] program, but obviously they’re not going to tell you.”

The film, adaptation of British journalist Jon Ronson’s book about the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, a unit that was to use paranormal powers, is “done in a lighthearted manner,” Root adds. The title refers to the idea that one can kill a goat by staring at it.

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By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith

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