Oscar winner George Clooney — a current awards season favorite with “The Descendants” — has added another project to his packed upcoming movie slate: Clooney and Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov will produce a movie about the Smothers Brothers and their groundbreaking TV series.

    Clooney and Heslov are teaming with Sony to turn David Bianculli’s 2009 book “Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of ‘The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour’” into a film.

    Bianculli confirmed the project on his site, TV Worth Watching. He called Clooney his dream choice for the movie adaptation of his book about the Smothers and their 1967-69 variety hour series.

    Bianculli, a TV critic and Rowan University professor, said he uses Clooney’s Oscar-winning film “Good Night, and Good Luck,” and live remake of “Fail Safe” in his courses.

    Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman will write the screenplay for the Smothers movie. They are also co-writing “Atari,” a biopic about Atari founder Nolan Bushnell.

    “The Descendants,” starring Clooney as a Hawaiian land baron with a comatose wife, was named film of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association on Sunday.

(SD-Agencies)