Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy wrote the script in which 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.
Cruz is eyed to play Fassbender's fiancee Laura--a role that had Natalie Portman in its sights recently. Cruz's husband, Javier Bardem, is now to play 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" This would be the first time the husband and wife have worked together since Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
Brad Pitt looks likely to take the small part of West Ray, a "mysterious figure that advises Fassbender's character on the drug trade". There is still no word on whether Pitt's soon to be wife Angelina Jolie will be able to join "The Counselor." She is currently scheduled to begin filming "Maleficent" in June, around the time this film is set to start production.
Nick Wechsler, Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz will produce.
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