THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (In Development + Cast News)

• SHIA LEBEOUF & ROBERT REDFORD KEEP GOOD COMPANY

Shia LaBeouf and Robert Redford have signed on to headline an adaptation of the Neil Gordon novel The Company You Keep. Redford is also attached to direct.

             Shia LeBeouf                    Robert Redford

The novel (which is being adapted by Lem Dobbs (Dark City, The Limey, The Score), was first published in 2003 and is officially described 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.

Redford will play the part of Sinai (who also uses the alias James Grant) with LaBeouf appearing as the young, Albany-based reporter.

Though the novel is written through a series of fictional e-mails, it is currently unknown whether or not Redford will embrace a similarly high-concept filmic approach.