The Company You Keep is an upcoming
Robert Redford‘s political drama, but it's also one of the projects that will have an interesting cast on board.
Ok, I know we say that about every single movie, but what would you say about this combination – Robert Redford and
Shia LaBeouf together on a big screen? If that's not interesting, then what is?
So, according to the latest reports, LaBeouf will star opposite Redford who is already set to star as a former Weather Underground militant wanted by the FBI for 30 years who must go on the run when a young, ambitious reporter exposes his true identity.
As you already guess, LaBeouf comes on board to play the character described as “budding journalist who's determined to make a name for himself.”
As we said, Redford is directing the movie which is based on
Neil Gordon‘s novel.
Lem Dobbs was in charge for the script and as we learned, the movie is already in preproduction and will film in Vancouver in September. Producer Nicolas Chatier said:
“This is an edge-of-your-seat thriller real Americans who stood for their beliefs, thinking they were patriots and defending their country's ideals against their government” and added that:
“It its absolutely amazing to have Shia LaBeouf, arguably the biggest young star in Hollywood today paired with the global icon Robert Redford.”
At the end, here's a little description of Gordon's novel: “When limousine-leftist lawyer and single dad Jim Grant is unmasked as Jason Sinai, an ex-Weather Underground militant wanted for a deadly bank robbery, he abandons his daughter and goes on the lam.
As he evades a manhunt and seeks out old comrades, the author introduces a sprawling cast of drug dealers, bomb-planting radicals turned leftist academics, Vietnam vets, FBI agents and Republicans who collectively ponder the legacy of the '60s. Gordon (Sacrifice of Isaac) skillfully combines a tense fugitive procedural, full of intriguing lore about false identities and techniques for losing a tail, with a nuanced exploration of boomer nostalgia and regret.
Alas, there are a few too many long-winded, semicoherent debates about the radical excesses of the era that inadvertently evoke marijuana-fueled dormitory bull sessions. Through these exchanges (and a little sexual healing), ideological opposites come together over a facile anti-politics of “national reconciliation.”
i swear to you that i am the biggest fan of ShiaLabeoufs in History