More than 20 years ago, George Clooney and Grant Heslov wrote “Good Night, and Good Luck,” a story chronicling journalist Edward R. Murrow’s confrontation with Senator Joseph McCarthy. If you recognize the title it may be because it was Murrow’s on-air signoff or because the Clooney-Heslov project became a six-time Academy Award-nominated movie. But Clooney and Heslov hadn’t initially conceived of their story as a film; they envisioned it as a live production for CBS television.
“We wrote it to write it — to write a play, and then we did a play reading,” Clooney recalled. “And I read Murrow just because I was the only actor that could do it at the time. And they said, ‘Yeah, you should play the part. And I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no.’”
