George Clooney Pulls Out Of 'The Man From UNCLE': Exits Steven Soderbergh Film

George Clooney is human, after all.

The Oscar-winner was attached to star in friend Steven Soderbergh's film adaptation of the 60s spy drama TV series, "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," but has pulled out of the flick, Deadline reports. According to E! Online, the exit comes thanks to the stunt-intensive script that the actor feared would put too much strain on his body, which is still healing from injuries suffered during the filming of the Middle East-set thriller.

"He said he just can't do the action and stunt scenes," a source from the film told E!. "In fact, I think he's planning on having another operation during the time he would have been filming."

Clooney has a busy fall, as it is; he will premiere "The Ides of March," the political thriller he wrote, directed and starred in (along with Ryan Gosling) at the Venice Film Festival, and will also take lead in Alexander Payne's film, "The Descendants."

Soderbergh, Clooney's "Oceans 11" franchise director, is said to be continuing with the film; currently, he is working on stripper drama "Magic Mike." He plans to make "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." one of his last three films before retiring.

For more, click over to Deadline and E! Online.

Comments

[Kathryn Stevenson]

10:31 PM on 09/02/2011

George Clooney would have been a GREAT Napolian Solo! It's too bad that he can't do the stunts because he would have been just perfect. I met Clooney a few years ago in Vegas at a blackjack table at The Venetian. He was a perfect gentleman and came over and introduced himself and absolutely couldn't have been nicer. (And I am middle-aged and not some "hottie.") He did this simply because that is the type of man that he is.

[WoodsideCraig]

10:02 AM on 09/01/2011

Maybe he has time to play economist Paul Krugman in a movie. Those two were clearly separated at birth.

[petit chaton]

08:12 AM on 09/01/2011

Ohhh, please George, don't pull-out yet!

[Tim Moore]

11:03 PM on 08/31/2011

Did he died?

[lmab]

07:23 PM on 08/31/2011

What was he doing in the man from uncle in the first place?

[mamala4]

02:29 PM on 08/31/2011

So that's why he has no kids...

[Kitten Kramer]

08:02 PM on 08/31/2011

lolololololo, you are funnnnnnnnny there mamala4.

[mamala4]

08:19 PM on 08/31/2011

Glad you think so....lololololololol.

[lmab]

01:42 PM on 08/31/2011

Santorum watch.

[Kaleidoscope1]

11:38 AM on 08/31/2011

He is going through andropause.

[niv001]

10:47 AM on 08/31/2011

I bet the person who wrote that title felt really proud of himself.

[Tolms]

10:42 AM on 08/31/2011

Huh, that's one way to avoid pregnancy.

[button64]

10:20 AM on 08/31/2011

I can give you a really nice massage to heal those aching bones George...call me :)

[slimguru]

10:03 AM on 08/31/2011

Imagine my disappointment, the headline made me think this was another one of those gratuitous sex posts.

[TheHeartland]

09:58 AM on 08/31/2011

Doesn't work.

[fisherdude47]

09:21 AM on 08/31/2011

George Clooney Pulls Out, yep that's his life in a nut shell. Can't keep a women maybe he likes being surrounded by men, humm

[iRock]

09:19 AM on 08/31/2011

Oh, so that's why he doesn't have any kids.