Who doesn’t want a little more Clooney in their day? New images of George & company in his latest hyphenated effort as director and star ofThe Ides of March have dropped courtesy of Sony and Yahoo.

With this batch we get another glimpse of the director, this time watching the action with a couple key members of his cast, Ryan Gosling and Evan Rachel Wood. I particularly like the pic of candidate Mike Morris (Clooney) on the podium with the picture perfect family. I know that’s Jennifer Ehle playing who I can only assume is his wife, although I can find no cast listing for her or anyone else in that role.

Ides of March Trailer, Poster & Set Images!

Co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, The Ides of March is an adaptation of play Beau Willimon’s play, “Farragut North”, which was in turn loosely based on the 2004 Democratic primary campaign of Howard Dean. When it opened in 2008 in New York, Chris Noth (Sex and the City‘s ‘Big’) had the lead. The film’s synopsis: An idealistic staffer (Gosling) for a newbie presidential candidate (Clooney) gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

The cast also includes Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei and Jeffrey Wright. The Ides of March is opening the Venice Film Festival on August 31 and will play the Toronto Film Festival in September before opening in the US on October 7 and 28 October in the UK.