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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; John Grisham</title>
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		<title>William Monahan to adapt Grisham&#8217;s THE ASSOCIATE for Shia LaBeouf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, one wonders if the name William Monahan is actually a pseudonym for three or four Hollywood scribes because Variety carry news of at least the 100th project he has must be working on right now. 

Paramount Pictures have hired the Oscar winning THE DEPARTED scribe to adapt John Grisham's latest best selling legal thriller THE ASSOCIATE which since December has had Shia LaBeouf attached to lead.
LaBeouf will play a Yale Law School student with a sordid secret that leaves him vulnerable to blackmail. He's manipulated into taking a job at a law firm and working on a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.
LaBeouf became a fan of the novel whilst reading it on the set of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN last Summer and convinced producer Lorenzo Dibonaventura that this was to be his next starring vehicle. 

I've yet to read Grisham's latest but I do like the idea of LaBeouf channeling more the Tom Cruise early 90's (a film like THE FIRM comes to mind) than becoming the tired old young lead of the Summer blockbuster. ]]></description>
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		<title>Shia LaBeouf in John Grisham thriller THE ASSOCIATES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paramount Pictures are banking on Shia LaBeouf once again, giving the young star of DISTURBIA, TRANSFORMERS 1 and 2 and INDY IV - the lead role in a new John Grisham thriller.

The movie is THE ASSOCIATES and it's based on Grisham's first legal thriller novel in three years when it's published in January.


LaBeouf will play a student who's about to graduate from Yale Law School when he's manipulated into accepting a job at a prestige law firm and given privileged information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TRAILER FOR THE ASSOCIATES NOVEL

Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing. He got a copy of the book whilst in the Middle East with TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN and loved it. He talked to LaBeouf on set and they bonded over the story and a deal was quickly done according to Variety.

di Bonaventura has previously produced the Grisham thrillers A TIME TO KILL and THE CLIENT. Grisham himself says the lead character in this one most closely resembles Tom Cruise's character in Grisham's thriller THE FIRM.

Perfect kind of material for LaBeouf, the sort of thriller that Ben Affleck showed his great acting chops at the turn of the century. I'm much ...]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Shankman directing PLAYING FOR PIZZA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it were any other John Grisham adapted project, you would be scratching your heads over this hiring from Phoenix Pictures. There's a great sounding Grisham book The Innocent Man currently being developed by George Clooney and The Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green which tells the true story of Ron Williamson who was sent to Death Row in Oklahoma for 11 years for a murder he didn’t commit.

If it had been that project, we would have something to shout about.


But then you remember that Grisham's latest novel is his most light hearted to date. It's Playing for Pizza - a movie about a veteran NFL quarterback who winds up on a semi-pro team in Italy after blowing his last chance to lead a team to the Super Bowl.

Exactly the kind of material the director of Hairspray, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, The Pacifier and Bringing Down the House might end up helming.

Adam Shankman is his name, he has just completed working on a Disney comedy titled Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler which is due out around Christmas time.

Shankman is hoping for a Spring start on this project and before he begins work on a Hairspray 2...


"We want to make ...]]></description>
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