In an interview with HitFix, Ewan McGregor has again spoken about Grant Heslov’s “Men Who Stare At Goats.”
“Most of the film is played through flashbacks from a road trip that George Clooney and myself are making through Iraq,” McGregor revealed. “I’m a journalist whose wife has run off and left. And in my grief over the relationship, I take myself to war, but I end up staying in a four star hotel in Kuwait unable to get into Iraq. And I meet this guy who talks about this secret division of the army and I think it’s going to make a better story so I follow him on this road trip through Iraq looking for his long, lost buddies. From that story, we flash back to the creation of this secret regimen. It’s a very amusing picture. Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, George Clooney and myself. We had such a great time, it’s hilarious.”
Flashbacks you say, Ewan? Well, that should explain the physical set up Clooney has going on in the first, much publicized, set photo from the film compared to the second (after all no one would sport that ridiculous-looking ‘stache and hair combo in this day and age now would they? hipster goofs aside). It also adds an interesting narrative element to the already compelling story sure to be full of sharp, dark humor. “Men Who Stare At Goats” doesn’t have a release date as of yet but we’re hoping for one late 2009.
