LOS ANGELES: George Clooney is to direct a film about the British phone hacking scandal, the studio behind the project announced.

"Hack Attack" will be based on the book of the same name by Guardian journalist Nick Davies about the hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch's news empire, which triggered the demise of its weekly News of the World.

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