With all the high-speed Internet connections and mobile devices out there, we receive breaking news at blistering speeds these days. And in movie news, one rumor can spark a million stories. Case in point: when New York magazine's Vulture blog reported that George Clooney was planning to follow through with his plans to adapt the play "Farragut North" into a feature film, with Chris Pine attached to star.
But we here at MTV News like to take every possible opportunity to clarify or confirm rumors. And when the very pleasant Pine called to chat about his upcoming thriller "Unstoppable" a few days after the Clooney news surfaced, we had to ask his thoughts about it.
"I have, I mean, I don't know what you're talking about," he said with some hesitation.
So, we told him the short version of the story.
"Wow!" he responded, sounding genuinely shocked. "Um ... that would be another dream come true," he said, having mentioned earlier that working with Denzel Washington and Ridley Scott on "Unstoppable" was just that.
"Farragut North," written by former Democratic political operative Beau Willimon, revolves around the shady tactics a young presidential campaign wunderkind named Stephen Myers uses to get his candidate the nomination against a rival senator.
"I love that part, I love the story," said Pine, who received rave reviews in the lead role of "Farragut" onstage last year. "I think it's a wonderful, wonderful story about a really intelligent young guy who's kind of hyper-articulate, and spinning a bunch of plates at once, that's obviously hiding a lot of trauma and a lot of insecurity and a lot of hurt. And to work with George Clooney, that would be pretty f---ing awesome."
We then mentioned the report that Clooney is eyeing Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti as Pine's potential co-stars.
His reaction? He laughed out loud in disbelief.
"Jesus Christ! Well, you can't get better than that," he said. "I hope it works out. That would be a lot of fun."
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