MUMBAI: George Clooney will star in The Monster of Florence, an adaptation of a best-selling nonfiction book about a serial killer who roamed the Italian city. The film will be produced by Clooney and business partner Grant Heslov along with Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen who had earlier made the American Beauty.

Usual Suspects scribe Christopher McQuarrie will adapt the book by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi‘s book.

At one point, Tom Cruise optioned the rights and set up the project at United Artists, which he was running at the time. It was Cruise who brought McQuarrie aboard.