Given his history of shirtlessness, bongo-drumming and laid-back sea-adjacent behaviour in his personal life, you can imagine Matthew McConaughey has been preparing to star in a movie called The Beach Bum most of his adult life. And so it has come to pass, as he's joined Harmony Korine's latest.
The Spring Breakers writer/director is cooking up the new movie, but mostly keeping the plot to himself, besides acknowledging that McConaughey will be playing a rebellious, loveable rogue. "The Beach Bum will be a wild, audacious ride!" says Korine in a statement carried by Screen International. "And I can’t think of anyone better than Matthew McConaughey to play our hero Moondog, a rebellious charmer in this fast-paced, uplifting and irreverent comedy.”
Korine aims to have the cameras and the waves rolling in July and the film's international rights are on sale at the European Film Market this month.
As for McConaughey, he's on our screens now in Gold and will be seen later this year in Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower, which arrives on 28 July.
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