Shia LaBeouf will play the title role in the bigscreen version of John Grisham's upcoming legal thriller
The Associate for Paramount Pictures, which the studio has just acquired rights to.
According to
Variety, LaBeouf will play a student who's about to graduate from Yale Law School when he's manipulated into accepting a job at a prestige law firm and given privileged information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.
The novel, Grisham's first legal thriller since 2005's "The Broker," will be published in January by Random House.
Par-based Di Bonaventura, who as an exec worked on the Grisham films
A Time To Kill and
The Client, received the book in the Middle East, where he and LaBeouf were shooting
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. There, they agreed to do it together.
No production date has been set.
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And killerman, nice reference to Con-Air with the white crusty remark.
He's neither Tom Hank's or Tom Cruise, Hank's just an over eager fun boy who thinks that he's funny.
Cruise on the other hand, can act and he knows it.
Shia on the other hand has his own style and at least from where I'm standing could be a better actor.
The only thing I can say is Shia's roles tend to be about the feeling. Thats the only negative thing I can say about him.