Postponed movie after Obama election: Clooney

London: Hollywood star George Clooney says he has to put his new movie 'Ides of March' on hold after US President Barack Obama was elected.

Clooney, 50, stars as a Democratic presidential candidate in the new film, alongside Ryan Gosling as a campaign worker, Daily Star reported.

"We were in pre-production on this film in 2007, before the Obama election. And then we realised that a good portion of the country was elated with what happened in that election, so we had to shelve the movie until people were cynical again," he said.

The 'Ocean's Thirteen' actor says he began work on the film in 2007, a year before Obama won the 2008 American presidential election.