The Oscar race continues to free up a bit as George Clooney’s The Monuments Men has been bumped to 2014.
The news was first reported by the Los Angeles Times. The film has not yet been completed, and George Clooney, who directed, produced, co-wrote, and starred in the film cited lack of remaining time as the reason that they won’t make their December 21 release date.
“We just didn’t have enough time,” Clooney said. “If any of the effects looked cheesy, the whole movie would look cheesy. We simply don’t have enough people to work enough hours to finish it.”
The Monuments Men is now scheduled to be release in the first quarter of 2014. While it’s less likely to be an Oscar contender with this kind of release, the first quarter of the year is typically barren, so it’ll be a nice consolation prize to have this movie to look forward to.
The Monuments Men isn’t the first film to not be able to make it’s 2013 release date. It’s unknown whether Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street will be done, though current rumors suggest it’ll make it in time for a Christmas release. We’ll keep you posted. Sony Pictures, who are releasing The Monuments Men, have already announced that another of their Oscar contenders, Foxcatcher, will be bumped to 2014.
The Monuments Men stars George Clooney (who also directed, produced, and co-wrote), Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin and more. As the plot is about putting together a team to go into the war to steal art, the common joke has been that the movie is basically “Saving Private Ocean.”
The newest trailer for the film was debuted back on October 11. For the first time, we got a really exciting look at the camaraderie the cast will have.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, “The Monuments Men” is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.
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