Ryan Gosling May Head to Farragut North

Ryan Gosling may join the cast of the previously announced film adapatation of Beau Willimon's Farragut North, according to Deadline.com. The Academy Award nominated actor is in talks with the film's director, Academy Award winner George Clooney. 

Gosling would take on the role previously played on stage at the Atlantic Theatre Company by American Idiot's John Gallagher Jr. Previous names speculated for the role include Chris Pine (who co-starred in the L.A. production), Leonardo DiCaprio and Jake Gyllenhaal. Gosling received an Academy Award nomination for Half Nelson. His many other film credits include Lars and the Real Girl, The Notebook, Stay, The Believer, United States of Leland and Fracture.

Farragut North is set in Des Moines just before the crucial Iowa presidential caucuses. The play’s “insider” tone is helped by the fact that playwright/screenwriter Willimon worked on the 2004 Howard Dean campaign. The movie cast will also include Phillip Seymor Hoffman as a burned-out political operative, Paul Giamatti as the campaign manager of a rival presidential candidate and possibly Marisa Tomei as a journalist and Evan Rachel Wood as a young staffer who gets involved with Gosling’s character. Clooney will reportedly take a cameo part in his film.