Update: The Descendants

Thanks to Sisieq777 for posting this update on The Descendants in the CNCU Forum.  According to Mr Clooney himself -  next on the project list will be The Descendants filming in Hawaii.

EXTRA gossip show – they were interviewing from Monday night’s award dinner and was asked what his next project was – he said he’ll be in Hawaii filming the movie Descendants.    He made a joke about being older as he was the father of an 18 year old.

For a refresher here’s what Variety had to say about the project in November

The plot, as provided by Variety, “centers on a wealthy landowner who takes his two daughters on a search for his wife’s lover in the hopes of keeping his family together.”  A look at a summary of the source novel, however, reveals more nuance as well as the trademark dark comedy tone Payne is so adept at handling.

Clooney will play the landowner who is descended from a Hawaiian princess and a haole (white person/foreigner).  He’s had a life of leisure and is married to a beautiful, adventurous woman, now in a terminal coma after a catamaran accident.  His 10 and 17-year-old daughters are strangers to him, and his relationship with them is awkward at best.  He’s also mulling over a business deal that would involve him selling his family land to a real estate developer.  As he’s contemplating pulling the plug on his wife, he finds out that she has been having an affair for some time with a real estate broker.  He gathers his children (the eldest sent from her boarding school) in  search of his wife’s lover.

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