The Ides of March/Trivia

• California Doubling: Averted. Most of the film was shot in Clooney's childhood home of Cincinnati (bizarrely enough, the film's theatrical credits forgot to mention the city).
• What Could Have Been: Leonardo DiCaprio (who produced) and Chris Pine (who played the part onstage) were considered for the lead before Ryan Gosling was cast.
  • Brad Pitt was signed on to play Paul Zara, but left due to scheduling conflicts with Moneyball and was replaced by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
• Working Title: The film was originally named "Farragut North", after the play it was based on. The name change to "The Ides of March" seems to have been a late one as there is no relation to the actual title (unless one interprets it as a modern-day Gaius Julius Caesar), albeit there is a reference to the fifteenth of March aka The Ides of March early in the film.