The WB acquired the rights to “The Tourist” last fall. The novel is said to be a contemporary international thriller about a spy who risks everything to reveal a conspiracy after he’s accused of a murder he didn’t commit.

Peckham is the writer who wrote the script for Human Factor which Clint Eastwood will be directing with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon starring. He also did a rewrite on the Sherlock Holmes script that Guy Ritchie is set to direct as well as a rewrite on Book of Eli, a project that has Denzel Washington interested in starring.

Clooney’s next film will be the Joel and Ethan Coen directed Burn After Reading.

The Anthony Peckham scripted drama is an adaptation of John Carlin’s book “The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the World.”

Damon will play rugby star Francois Pienaar, who created, with Nelson Mandela (played by Freeman), an event that gave whites and blacks in South Africa a common cause to rally around as the country was trying to heal from the wounds of apartheid.

Freeman was the moving force behind this production. After receiving Mandela’s blessing, Freeman took the project to his pal Clint Eastwood and to WB where Eastwood has his production deal.

Eastwood will make this his next project after he finishes Gran Torino (you know, the project that’s not a Dirty Harry film).

Damon just wrapped the untitled Paul Greengrass directed drama for Universal based on “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” and he’s currently starring for Steven Soderbergh in The Informant for Warner Bros. He plans to rest up in the fall and make Human Factor his next starring role.