Actor George Clooney's next will be a big screen adaptation of Robert M. Edse's book, which talks about a handful of experts experts who are asked to retrieve artwork stolen by Nazis.

George Clooney.PICs/AFP

The actor is working on the screenplay for the a big screen adaptation of Edse's book "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History", which follows a special force of US and British museum directors, curators and art historians, who risked their lives scouring Europe for art stolen by the Nazis, reports contactmusic.com.