· Burning question pinging around Movieline HQ on Monday: If Gerard Butler had starred in Green Lantern and The Change-Up instead of Ryan Reynolds, would it have made a difference in box office? Ponder that while you consider this: Butler is attached to star in the Butler-y project The Bricklayer, an adaptation of the bestselling crime novel. Millenium Films will produce with Hanna Weg handling script duties; The Bricklayer centers on Steve Vail (Butler), “a former FBI agent, working as a Chicago bricklayer, whom the agency reaches out to help track down and combat the criminal gang.” Sounds perfectly B-grade. [THR]
· It-Girl of the moment Brit Marling is in talks for her biggest role yet. The Another Earth starlet may join Shia LaBeouf and Robert Redford in the Redford-directed The Company You Keep. The political thriller follows a former militant (Redford) on the run from the FBI after being outed by a young reporter (LaBeouf). If signed, Marling would play the female lead; she’s also set to co-star with Tim Roth and Susan Sarandon in Arbitrage, out in 2012. [Variety]
· If you couldn’t get enough of the underrated Matthew McConaughey vehicle The Lincoln Lawyer, here’s a bit of good news: ABC has ordered a script from Lionsgate for a television version of the property. Quick and related question: With NBC having cast Josh Lucas in its reboot of The Firm, and Patrick Wilson starring on the CBS fall series A Gifted Man, what…
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