George Clooney will headline "Men Who Stare at Goats" reports Variety.

An adaptation of British journalist Jon Ronson's book, the film tells the story of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion, a unit that was to use paranormal powers. The title refers to the notion that one can kill a goat by staring at it.

Peter Straughan ("How to Lose Friends & Alienate People") penned the script, and Clooney's Smoke House partner Grant Heslov will direct.