Bradley Cooper may cry 'U.N.C.L.E.'

CooperSoderberghEXCLUSIVE: Carrying out a whirlwind casting search that has seen Matt Damon and also the Actor-kaira Pitt spread charge role vacated by George Clooney, Bradley Cooper has emerged as Steven Soderbergh's choice to star in Warner Bros.' spy pic "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."Cooper presently posseses an offer to see Napoleon Solo, as well as the opportunity to utilize Soderbergh is really a that Cooper will most likely accept, considering how hard his team at CAA labored to place him for your coveted part.Once he systems "The Silver Textures Playbook" for director David O. Russell as well as the Weinstein Company, Cooper will segue into Alex Proyas' "Paradise Lost" for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. He's prone to wrap that large-budget epic by March, after which it he'd move right to "U.N.C.L.E.," which Soderbergh needs to direct before helming a Liberace biopic for Cinemax.Cooper can be a fixture round the Warner Bros. lot, getting starred inside the studio's blockbuster "Hangover" franchise. He recently wrapped some indies, "WhatInch and "The Region Beyond the Pines." Cooper, who plays Lucifer in "Paradise Lost" opposite Benjamin Master, aided energy Relativity Media's "Limitless" with a $156 million worldwide gross. Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com