Friday, March 09, 2012

The Councelor Eyes Portman As Renner & Bardem Circle

Natalie Portman is in talks for the female lead with Jeremy Renner and Javier Bardem part of preliminary overtures for the same role in  Ridley Scott's thriller "The Counselor"-from a spec script from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy says Twitchfilm.




In the tale Michael Fassbender will play a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked in. It is a bad decision and he tries his best to survive it and get out of a desperate situation.

Portman would play his fiancee Laura. Renner was previously linked with both Bradley Cooper and Brad Pitt for the role of the villain, a criminal named Reiner who facilitates the lawyer's entry into the drug trade. The bad guy role is being likened to Bardem's turn in the film adaptation of McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men".

 Pitt and Cooper are officially out of the running for the film.

Nick Wechsler, Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz will produce.

Production is due to kick off on May 1st

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