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Tommy Lee Jones wants to direct and co-star in The Lincoln Lawyer that Matthew McConaughey is using as a starring vehicle.  Lincoln Lawyer is based on the 2005 best-seller by Michael Connelly.

The story follows Mickey Haller, a wheeler-dealer Los Angeles lawyer who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Haller is content with a career defending garden-variety criminals such as bikers, con artists, drunk drivers and drug dealers. Then he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder. Mickey has his first high-paying client in years – a dream case, perhaps one of his easiest cases ever. Then, a variable comes into play and well…the case isn’t easy anymore and Haller’s life is in danger.  

McConaughey is set to play Haller. It’s unclear what role Jones would play. The playboy character may be too young for Jones. But it depends on the script. John Romano wrote the script.

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Matthew McConaughey’s J.K. Livin production banner is developing Exchange Student. 

The comedy follows to college freshmen going opposite ways in life.  One leaves the U.S. while the other one comes into the U.S. Each experiences different environmental factors in very different ways.  One’s life goes off the rails while other’s life has the best of the best, the time of his life. 

Most likely McConaughey, who generated the idea, will take a non-leading role.

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Mathew McConaughey has joined the cast of upcoming legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer for Lakeshore Entertainment.

Being adapted from Michael Connolly’s novel, the film will tell the story of a low-level criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller who finds himself representing a wealthy client with ties to a previous murder case Haller handled.

The film is being produced by Scott Steindorff, Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi.

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Well, folks, we’re neck deep in February.  And if you’re living in the Northern Hemisphere that means you too are neck deep in cold and snow and slush and general icy foulness as far as you can see.  It’s times like these you wish you had a nice warm-weather romp to get the chill out of the air and out of your bones, so why not try a movie?

When the cold starts getting to me–and let’s face it, a couple months living in the deep freeze can get to just about anybody–one of my personal favorites of late is a recent Matthew McConaughey title called Fool’s Gold.

Sure, it’s a bit simplistic as movies go.  Basically, a loser and his very recently exed wife are hunting for a legendary Spanish fortune known as the Queen’s Dowry, a massive stockpile of gold and assorted precious stones in various sizes and configurations worth about half a billion dollars.  Naturally, he’s not the only one in the hunt for it, as a homicidal rapper who owns a nearby island is also looking for it and he’s hired some serious characters to make sure he gets his.  It’s a race to the finish to see who can unearth a slice of history, and a pile of loot to go with it.

If you’re thinking this sounds a bit like that Paul Walker / Jessica Alba wreckage Into the Blue, well, you’re right.  The substantial difference here is that Fool’s Gold takes itself much less seriously than Into the Blue did, and includes plenty of humor to cut its dramatic tension.

And there will be plenty of both.  Lots of comedy, both subtle and “hurr hurr he got kicked in the junk” humor, is present throughout the movie.  Also, plenty of dramatic tension in the form of intrateam squabbling and various family crises will abound.

Oh, sure…the plot is simplistic, and it’ll often drag you along through leaps of logic as a whole bunch of mismatched individuals come together to go hunting for treasure.  Even the laws of physics will work against Fool’s Gold at some points.  But in terms of just feeling good, well, there’s not a whole lot of movies that quite do it like this one.  And that’s a surprise to say.

This one, before getting the video release, was put out back in February of 2008.  Just last year, in fact–guess they saw it coming before anyone else did.  There’s just not much better cure for feeling cold and feeling blue than watching pretty people tear around a pretty tropical island searching for pretty jewelry.  This is likely why Confessions of a Shopaholic came out when it did.

Fool’s Gold is brain candy, pure and simple.  If you’re willing to overlook some pretty nasty plot holes and just imagine yourself on that tropical island hunting for gold for a while, you’ll walk away feeling pretty good afterward.  If you insist on coherence and logical plotlines, however, then you won’t have any fun on this cheesy little ride and you’ll probably walk away wishing you’d watched Slumdog Millionaire again or something.

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MTV Movies reports that producer Brian Grazer has shot down rumors that Matthew McConaughey was offered the role of the title character in Magnum P.I.

Said Grazer: "No. I think the idea for ‘Magnum P.I.’ is to find a counterpoint. To not try and find the new Tom Selleck but to find someone that is just so different that you go, oh my God! That guy is Magnum?!?"

The remake is being penned by Rawson Thurber (Dodgeball), but the major hurdle right now is casting. The original ‘80s television series told the story of a private investigator living in Hawaii, solving cases and leaving a luxurious lifestyle.

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