George Clooney has started putting a cast together for Men Who Stare At Goats. It's based on the details uncovered by Jon Ronson (author of the same titled book, along with the excellent Them: Adventures with Extremists).According to HR he’s got Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor, and Jeff Bridges in negotiations to be tethered to it. It’s based on a book about an army unit with paranormal powers.
The title refers to the idea that they can kill a goat simply by staring at it. McGregor will play a reporter named Bob Wilton who stumbles onto the secret when he meets a man (Clooney) who claims to be a psychic soldier.
Bridges will play Clooney’s mentor and the founder of the psychic program, while Spacey will play a former psychic soldier now running a prison camp in Iraq. A great idea and what appears to be a great cast.
Try and catch the documentary Crazy Rulers of the World which featured the episode about the Men who Stare at Goats. Chisholm's friend, The Russian, will dig it.
The three-part series begins with The Men Who Stare at Goats, which charts the history of a secret US Army unit founded in 1979 - the First Earth Battalion.
The programme uncovers the startling truth about this unit's involvement with paranormal activities that defy all known accepted military practice, including mind reading, out of body experiences and 'thought-death' experiments carried out on goats at Fort Bragg.
In programme two, Jon Ronson reveals how the New Age movement of the 1980s has influenced interrogation at Guantanamo Bay and in post-war Iraq.
The final episode looks into the military's involvement with remote viewing and mind control experiments.
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