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In 2005 Filmmaker selected Rachel Boynton as one of our "25 New Faces of Independent Film" based on the advance knowledge we had on her completely excellent doc Our Brand is Crisis, which was successfully released in theaters last year.

Today came more great news for Boynton and her doc. Pamela McClintock and Adam Dawtrey report in Variety that Warner Brothers has picked up feature remake rights to the doc for George Clooney and his Smoke House production company. According the trade paper, the film will be "reimagined as a dark comedy," which is not much of a stretch if you've seen Boyton's tragi-comic skewering of U.S. political advisors muddling about in Bolivian politics.

(Boynton is photographed here by Matt Mahurin.)


# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 4/23/2007 01:56:00 PM
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