Report: Clooney Prepping Film Focused on Drugs, Kids in Coronado?

An upcoming article that apparently focuses on Coronado, teens and drug smuggling has been chosen by star George Clooney and his filmmaking partners as their next project, according to the entertainment site The Wrap.com.

According to The Wrap's piece, the film would be called Coronado High, though it did not establish the time frame for the story.

The movie would be based on a magazine article by Joshuah Bearman, who wrote the piece in Wired magazine that helped inspire the Oscar-winning Best Picture Argo.

 The Wrap reports:

“Bearman's article has not been published yet so details remain thin, but those familiar with the story say it involves a group of teenagers who are used to smuggle drugs in Coronado, which is an affluent resort city near San Diego, California.”

Commander Michael Lawton of the Coronado police said he knows of no such case being investigated currently and that no writers have contacted the department with questions about teens and drug smuggling.

He mentioned, however, an infamous group called the “Coronado Company,” which linked Coronado High School to a drug ring up to 40 years ago. Investigations in the '80s led to multiple arrests in the case.

Another Bearman article from Wired, “Art of the Steal” in 2010, is also being produced as a film, the publication said.

For more, see The Wrap.