If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my blog updates by email. Thanks for visiting!

A scene from guide to Recognizing your saints

Paramount Pictures has set Shia LeBeouf to play the title role in the bigscreen version of John Grisham’s upcoming legal thriller “The Associate,” which the studio has just acquired rights to.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing the film. LaBeouf will play a student who is about to graduate from Yale Law school when he is manipulated into accepting a job at a prestige law firm and given priviledged 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.

Grisham’s longtime rep, David Gernet, shopped the book by giving it to four producers. While some felt that lessened the book’s chances to find a suitor in a tight marketplace, the strategy worked.

Paramount based Di Bonaventura, who as a executive worked on the Grisham film A Time to Kill and The Client, received the book in the Middle East, where he and Lebeouf were shooting Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” There, they agreed to do it together.

Deal gives Paramount another LaBeouf vehicle to follow the Transformers films, on which the studio partners with Dreamworks. He last starred for the studio in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

Popularity: 2% [?]

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!