George Clooney is close to a deal to star opposite Robert De Niro in Marc Forster’s “36,†a remake the French cop saga “36 Quai des Orfevresâ€. Dean Georgaris (â€The Manchurian Candidateâ€), is translating the script, set to film in New York later this year. The French film, starring Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil as detectives heading plain-clothes divisions at Paris police headquarters, centers on the quest to solve a series of armored car robberies with a promotion going to whomever catches the perpetrators.