He liked the story and greenlit it.
"I greenlit all the projects that were released last year," she said.
Clooney, along with partner Grant Heslov, is a producing powerhouse (Argo, August: Osage County, The Men Who Stare at Goats) and can get pretty much anything greenlit, it would appear - especially if he's in it.
Here it is much harder to get a show made, there are less broadcasters than say the US – therefore if a show is greenlit, it has had a good development process.
If a Warcraft sequel is to be greenlit, it would follow in the steps of Pacific Rim 2, which appeared to be stalled until the Chinese takeover of Legendary.
If you can convince John Lasseter, Pixar's chief creative officer, the film will be greenlit - it gets funding.
If this project is greenlit, it would follow an upcoming spinoff movie focused on the character Han Solo, which will debut in 2018.
The company must have known what it was getting when it greenlit the project, and if the cuts were carried out for commercial reasons as the terse statement suggests, it seems peculiarly wrong-headed.
Universal Pictures reported that it greenlit American Gangster with a budget of $80 million, which escalated to $93 million, with $10 million for development costs and $3 million for the delay of the production start date.
Hollywood is a big lover of the mantra "If it worked once, then do it again" and, consequently, has greenlit a Quiet Place sequel before it's even available to stream Netflix.
Disney prepares for Pearl Harbour Disney studios confirmed last night that it has greenlit the WW2 epic Pearl Harbour with a budget rumoured to be topping out at $135m.
