See George Clooney Face Off with Ryan Gosling in The Ides of March, Adapted from the Play Farragut North

Even before the political drama Farragut North opened off-Broadway in the wake of the 2008 election, movie rights had been snapped up by George Clooney. Three years later, Clooney’s film adaptation of Beau Willimon’s play, now titled The Ides of March, is set to open the 2011 Venice Film Festival. Clooney and his longtime producing partner Grant Heslov joined with Willimon to pen the screenplay, when centers on an ambitious young press secretary (created onstage by John Gallagher Jr. and now played by Ryan Gosling) and the effects of his endless scheming during a presidential campaign. Click on to see the trailer of this hot new film, which co-stars Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and more.