Robert Redford and Shia LaBeouf to Star in THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

RobertRedford and Shia LaBeouf are set to star in an adaptation of the Neil Gordon written novel The Company You Keep. Redford will also be directing the film project. Lem Dobbs (Dark City, The Limey, The Score) has been brought on board to adapt the screenplay for Voltage Pictures. 

Redford will play a character named Jason Sinai a.k.a James Grant who is a Vietnam era fugitive wanted for Murder. LaBeouf will take on the role of a young news reporter, looking for the story behind the man. This sounds like a great story, and it will be interesting to see Redford and Labeouf work together. Im sure Redford could teach LaBeouf a thing or two.

Here's the description of the book:

When Jason Sinai, one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974, encounters a young newspaper reporter in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road -- traveling across American and deep into his past. Set against the rise and fall of the radical anti-war group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keep is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the ecstatic righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties. It is a vidid re-creation of lives lived underground -- of battle-scarred veterans, ideologues, profiteers, criminals and bystanders.