Daniel Craig and Bill Murray have been cast in George Clooney's forthcoming film The Monuments Men.
Clooney has co-written and will direct the period drama which will also star Cate Blanchett, John Goodman and The Artist's Jean Dujardin, Deadline reports.
The film follows a group of art historians and curators who helped to recover thousands of stolen artworks from the Nazis during the final days of their reign.
It is based on Robert M Edsel's book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, and Clooney is set to take a role in the movie as well as directing.
Production is scheduled to begin in March of next year.
Clooney's last directed the Ryan Gosling political thriller The Ides of March in 2011.
