Variety reports that The Departed screenwriter, William Monahan, was hired by Paramount to adapt The Associate, John Grisham’s popular novel, to the big screen.
Actor Shia LaBeouf will play a Yale student who is about to graduate. He will get manipulated into accepting a job at a prestigious law firm, where he will receive information concerning a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
William Monahan also wrote the scripts for Edge of Darkness starring Mel Gibson and London Boulevard, in which Keira Knightley co-stars with Colin Farrell.