Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Legal Writer

William Monahan will adapt John Grisham's current bestselling book, a legal thriller called "The Associate" says Variety.

The film is being prepped for Shia Labeouf, as a Yale Law School student with a sordid past that leaves him vulnerable to blackmail. He's soon manipulated into taking a job at a law firm and working on a multi billion-dollar lawsuit.

Monahan takes this on as he preps his directorial debut London Boulevard, and is also.adapting the book The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Art Thief.

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