Vaughn, who is best known for comedies, like the successful Wedding Crashers, is being offered a role in the drama by the project’s director Paul Haggis.
Against All Enemies is based on the memoires of Richard Clarke, a Washington reporter, who will be played by Sean Penn.
The story will explore how the Bush administration has handled the response to the al-Qaida attacks on the United States on September, 11, 2001.