On Sept 28th, Michael Clayton will hit theaters.
Clayton stars George Clooney as a lawyer that handles the dirty work for a large law firm. His world is turned upside down when he is thrust into a massive class action lawsuit.
Tony Gilroy is writer and director of Michael Clayton. While this will be his directorial debut, he has a fairly strong resume as a screenwriter: Delores Claiborne, Armageddon and the Bourne films (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and the forthcoming Bourne Ultimatum).
To be fair, he also wrote Proof of Life and Extreme Measures. But nobody is perfect.
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house “fixer” at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen’s dirtiest work at the behest of the firm’s co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack). Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton’s firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach’s brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
