George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh have come aboard to produce Don Cheadle's directing debut
Tishomingo Blues, says Variety.
The movie was originally set up at Britain's FilmFour, which left the film financing business in 2002. The Elmore Leonard adaptation would mark a Leonard reunion for the trio, who have made
Out of Sight based on the Leonard book of the same name and directed by Soderbergh.
With a script by John Richards (
Nurse Betty), 'Tishomingo Blues' follows a high diver at the Tishomingo Hotel & Casino in Mississippi who witnesses a Mafia murder and becomes entangled with a Detroit con artist.