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"George Clooney was forced to pull out of director Steven Soderbergh&amp;#039;s film adaptation of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in order to have back surgery. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. screenwriter Scott Z Burns has revealed that Clooney personally apologised for leaving the project during their recent meeting at the Venice Film Festival. Burns told The Playlist: &amp;quot;George is a really fun guy and a really cool actor. I ran into George last week. He made a point of running to me and saying, &amp;#039;I really, really loved your script and I just wanted to be really clear with you that I need to have back surgery and I can&amp;#039;t do this&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Burns continued: &amp;quot;I do know that [director] Steven [Soderbergh]&amp;#039;s plan, which he was really upfront with me about, was to shoot the action really practically, and it&amp;#039;s going to be a really, really physically intense movie. &amp;quot;I think he really enjoyed some of what he did with [his upcoming action movie] Haywire by keeping things practical and I think wants to apply that again. And from having written that character, I know that&amp;#039;s not a thing that you would want to do if you had a bad back.&amp;quot; The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is based on a 1960s television series which starred Robert Vaughn and David McCallum as international secret agents. Clooney&amp;#039;s next directorial effort The Ides of March opens in the US on October 7 and in the UK on October 28. &amp;gt; George Clooney, Madonna bring movies to London Film Festival &amp;gt; George Clooney: &amp;#039;I have no interest in running for President&amp;#039; Watch the trailer for The Ides of March below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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