Imagine George Clooney calling you to say that he wants to turn your play into a film. That's exactly what happened to Beau Willimon with his play Farragut North, renamed The Ides Of March for the big screen. After years of working on a series of political campaigns Willimon wrote The Ides of March based on his experiences. It's a thriller that sees idealistic campaigner Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling) get a crash course in dirty politics. It's got sex, betrayal, death, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti - a winning recipe by any definition. We sat down with Willimon and Evan Rachel Wood, who plays volunteer campaigner Molly, when they were in town last week to find out more... http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1374

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