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Shia LaBeouf Is The Associate
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Shia LaBeouf Is The Associate He’ll star in the new John Grisham legal thriller BY James White Dec 2nd 2008 4:04AM FILED UNDER: Movie news Be the first to comment Shia LaBeouf has nabbed the lead role in Paramount s new John Grisham adaptation The Associate. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing the film, and recruited LaBeouf on the set of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, reports Variety . The Eagle Eye star will play a Yale Law graduate who is manipulated into taking a job at a big legal firm and slipped insider information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit. Back To The Bar The Associate marks Grisham s first ...
Shia LaBeouf, Legal Eagle
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Shia LaBeouf, Legal Eagle By now Paramount Pictures has paid for Shia LaBeouf's vacation house, assortment of cars, and God knows what kind of expensive habits, given that they're responsible for Eagle Eye , Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Disturbia . And now they're sending him to law school. LaBeouf, all grown up, will star in the first adaptation of a John Grisham legal thriller in 6 years, The Associate , a book that will be published in January. Variety writes that LaBeouf will play a Yale Law graduate who lands a job at a giant firm, finds ...
LaBeouf and Grisham Team Up - Woot!
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Shia LeBeouf - I like to call him “my boy” - has signed on for “The Associate,” a movie based on a John Grisham novel. One of my favorite actors playing a character from one of my favorite authors. Could there be anything better?!
Variety is reporting that LaBeouf will play a student who’s about to graduate from Yale Law School when he’s manipulated into accepting a job at a prestigious law firm and given privileged information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.
Paramount Pictures just acquired the rights to the story, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing. The novel ...
Shia LaBeouf to star in Grisham's 'Associate'
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Shia LaBeouf has agreed to play the lead character in Paramount's big-screen version of the upcoming John Grisham novel "The Associate."
According to Variety, the plot centers on a student ready to graduate from Yale Law School when he's tricked into a job at a lawfirm where he gets access to crucial information about multibillion-dollar lawsuit.
The project is obviously still in the earliest developmental stage. As for the novel, it will hit store shelves this coming January.
LaBeouf starred in two big blockbusters this year: "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and ...
Shia LaBeouf to Star in John Grisham’s The Associate
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... By now we all know that Shia LaBeouf has the teenage moviegoing crowd pretty much wrapped around his finger, but at what point will he start making movies that appeal to an older demographic? How about… now? According to Variety, The Beef has just signed on to star in an upcoming legal thriller based on John Grisham’s book The Associate. The plot involves a law school grad who is blackmailed into joining a reputable law firm. ...
Shia Gets a Grisham. Trade Roughage 12/02/08
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Shia LaBeouf will take a pause from Transformer movies and unofficial Hitchcock remakes long enough to star in an adaptation of the new John Grisham legal thriller, The Associate. The film will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who oversaw past Grisham films The Client and A Time to Kill. Could this mean director Joel Schumacher will also be on board?
Peter Farrelly (one of the brothers) and producer Charles Wessler are putting together a comedic portmanteau (or anthology) film with 24 shorts utilizing the writing and/or directing talents of such vets as Brett Ratner, ...
Shia LaBeouf Is John Grisham’s Newest ‘Associate’
Film School Rejects —
Once upon a time, the true mark of Hollywood stardom was your name as the lead in an adaptation of a John Grisham legal thriller. The list of unknowns who became stars overnight is a long one starting with Tom Cruise in 1993’s The Firm and Julia Roberts in The Pelican Brief that same year. Other young actors and actresses who started their careers in Grisham’s world include a young Susan Sarandon in The Client and Matthew McConaughey in A Time To Kill.
Variety is reporting that one more name is about to be added to that exclusive list. Shia LaBeouf, best ...
Shia LaBeouf Becomes Legal Eagle For John Grisham’s ‘The Associate’
MTV Movies Blog —
... They grow up so fast. Just yesterday, it seemed like Shia LaBeouf was talking to transforming robots and chasing after his dad, Indiana Jones. Now, he’s all grown up and about to graduate from Yale Law School — well, on the big screen, anyway. Variety reports that LaBeouf has signed on to play the lead in “The Associate” for Paramount Pictures. This is Grisham’s first legal thriller in three years, and Paramount just snagged the rights to it after it was quietly shopped to only four producers. ...
Morning Deal Report: Bourne Again
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With James Bond back in theaters, it’s only a matter of time before that other superspy who shares his initials makes his way back to the big screen. E! Online reports that “Universal has just inked a deal with Robert Ludlum's estate for exclusive rights to the Jason Bourne character and first look at his other novels.” Matt Damon “has already signed on to a fourth installment to be directed by Paul Greengrass, who helmed The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Supremacy. It's not known whether Damon will play the role beyond the next film, or whether producers will go the Bond route and keep recasting.” Here’s a ...
Shia LaBeouf in a Grisham Movie Was Probably Inevitable
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... Be it cell phone, alien skull, AllSpark, or the modest briefcase, there is nothing Shia LaBeouf can't run around holding while shouting. He's truly our most versatile holding things and yelling young actor. When he steps into a legal thriller courtroom, the jury is going to be so awed at how he holds his briefcase and shouts objections, all with the charisma of a young Tom Hanks.
Shia LaBeouf to star in 'Associate' [Variety]
Shia LaBeouf is John Grisham's 'Associate'
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... adaptation.
Variety reports that the studio just purchased
the rights to the legal thriller The Associate, which will be released in
January by Random House. ...
Reel Talk Mixtape
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... John Grisham has yet, another novel that will be coming to the big screen! "The Associate" is the new legal thriller that has just announced Shia LeBeouf as the leading role. ...
LaBeouf Cast as Lead in Grisham's The Associate
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... who as an exec worked on the Grisham films "A Time to Kill" and "The Client," received the book in the Middle East, where he and LaBeouf 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." Source: Variety ...
