Imagine George Clooney running up the Farragut North escalator like this. HOT!

If you had to choose one Metro station in the entire subway system on which to base a film, which would it be? Gallery Place would be the ideal setting for an edgy, "urban" tale of teenage disillusionment. How about an update of Mallrats set in Friendship Heights? Or even, perhaps, a terrorist drama that unfolds at Pentagon City? Probably the last station I'd choose would be Farragut North. I've exited there around a dozen times in my short time in D.C. and can't remember a single detail about it, except the relief I feel upon exiting into daylight.

But hey, I'm not George Clooney, so what do I know? Three years since announcing he'd adapt the off-Broadway play Farragut North, which was inspired by Howard Dean's primary campaign in 2004, Clooney's finally announced plans to start shooting the film in February. According to Vulture, the film will star Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, and possibly Chris Pine, who played Cpt. Kirk in the recent Star Trek reboot. More important, will Clooney be filming in D.C.? Despite its name, which is indeed a reference to the Metro station, the story is set in Des Moines, Iowa, so probably not. There goes our hopes of a D.C.-based blockbuster that's actually worth our $10.

In other local-ish news, Christina Hendricks, the sexiest woman alive, says she hated life as a student at Fairfax High. “It was kind of like the movie Heathers,” she tells Capital File. “It was really hard-core. The way I looked and the fact that I was in drama class was not working out for me.” Apparently, racial tensions were high, and “[s]omeone burned a cross in front of the school, and they put barbed wire up so no one could get out during the day.... It was kind of a war zone.” The magazine did force one fond memory out of her, though. "One of my favorite things is to drive out to Frederick and go down towards Middleburg, which I think is some of the most beautiful country in the world. I still miss those drives — getting a tuna sandwich and a pickled egg and shopping at little stores.” How quaint.

Speed round: The guy who played Haziz in The 40-Year-Old Virgin allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend 23 times, though this article fails to mention whether or not she survived. Darren Aronofsky, whose Black Swan and The Wrestler started as one movie, is rumored to be interested in directing Wolverine 2. The soundtrack listing for Sofia Coppola's new film, Somewhere, includes tracks by Amerie, The Strokes, and Phoenix, the lead singer of which has two children by her. And Piranha 3D producer Mark Canton lashes out at James Cameron for disparaging remarks the self-assigned King of 3-D made about Canton's film.

For videos, there's a trailer for Repeaters, which is like Groundhog Day with guns; Never Let Me Go, an adaptation of a Kazuo Ishiguro novel starring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley; and finally this clip, "Full Metal Disney," which speaks for itself:

[via FilmDrunk]