Amazon Studios acquired the film rights to The Tender Bar in July 2020 after they languished for years at Sony Pictures, and Clooney is also producing through his Smokehouse Pictures production company.
The Tender Bar is also Clooney and Affleck’s second time collaborating, as the former was a co-producer on Argo, which the latter directed and starred in.
There’s no word yet on if Clooney will spend any time on camera, but this marks his eighth time directing a feature film.
The Tender Bar film adaptation stars Ready Player One’s Tye Sheridan as J.R. Moehringer, Ben Affleck as J.R.’s Uncle Charlie and Lily Rabe as J.R.’s mother, Dorthy, with Back to the Future’s Christopher Lloyd also starring in an undisclosed role, among many others.