And he’s back in the game! George Clooney, that is. Well, I guess he wasn’t ever really out of the game, was he? No he wasn’t. I mean, it’s George Clooney– he’s not going anywhere! But, with just four feature films under his directing belt, he is back in the director’s game. And this is quite exciting.

Fresh off of writing, directing and starring in this year’s Ides of March (Oscar bait, anyone?), The Wrap is reporting that Clooney has already found his next film to, uh, write, direct, and star in (do I suspect a pattern?). Much less of a political thriller and much more of a historical heist film, The Monuments Men is set to be Clooney’s next venture.

Based off of Robert M. Edsel’s book, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, the film will follow a group of American and British men picked to retrieve artwork back from the Nazis. Clooney has yet to reveal which role he will actually be taking on in front of the camera, but no doubt it will be a big one if his two roles behind the camera are to be taken into consideration (uh, The Ides of March, Leatherheads, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, anyone?)

First a political thriller and now a story involving Nazis? It seems like someone is eyeing the much coveted directing Oscar (or at the very least, a Writing Oscar). Let’s just hope this more closely follows Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck. rather than his much-less well-recieved Leatherheads. There’ll be no way to tell, though for quite some time. But I’m on board: I’m rooting for you, Clooney. I really am.