Shia Labeouf is teaming up with actor/director Robert Redord for a new movie based on the book THE COMPANY YOU KEEP, by Neil Gordon.
Redford will act in and direct the film, which is being written by Lem Dobbs.
The story is as follows:
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.
Reford plays Sinai, while LaBeouf, inevitably tring to distance himself from big-budget blockbusters, will play said young reporter.
