Legal Eye

Shia LaBeouf will star in the film adaptation of John Grisham's newest legal thriller " The Associate"reports Variety.

LaBeouf will play a student who's about to graduate from Yale Law School being manipulated into accepting a job at a prestigous law firm and given privileged information about a multi billion-dollar lawsuit.

Wow! Until now LaBeouf's stayed away from anything too dramatic--It will be interesting to see how he does here...

The novel is Grisham's first legal thriller since 2005's "The Broker" and hits stores in January.

Meanwhile--Ann Peacock will adapt Grisham's eighth legal thriller novel, 1997's The Partner says The Hollywood Reporter...