Will Clooney play Nikola Tesla?

(George Clooney)

A few months ago it was announced that Brad Bird would direct a new film written by Damon Lindelof called 1952.

According to IMDb, George Clooney is in talks with Disney to join the mysterious Brad Bird-directed film, which is now being developed under the code name Tesla. This is not the official title, but there's speculation that Clooney might be playing Nikola Tesla. He would play a "man searching for extra-terrestrials on Earth," it was

Now for those of you who don't know, Tesla built some kind of radio machine while living in Colorado Springs that he called a Magnifying Transmitter, and he claimed to have received signals from Mars from it. As you know, the movie will revolve around aliens making contact with earth.

Then there's also a book written by Tim Swartz called The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla, which has established Tesla as a UFO-hunting guru in the imaginations of many UFO buffs.

The story will be set in the present day, and Bird and Damon Lindelof want to recapture the spirit of 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, right down to centering it around a man in his late forties, like Richard Dreyfuss’s Roy Neary. That would be the man Clooney would play.