Matthew McConaughey has already signed up to star in The Lincoln Lawyer, the story of an ambulance-chasing attorney who takes on a dangerous case, but now it looks like fellow Texan Tommy Lee Jones might be joining him as both director and co-star.
It's not yet clear what role Jones will take in the story, which sees McConaughey as lawyer Mickey Haller, who's on his uppers and living out of his car (a Lincoln, see?) until he lands Louis Ross Roulet, a rich LA playboy, as a client. Haller figures he's onto a winner - only things aren't quite that easy. Now Jones could be set to play Roulet, but he's written as a younger man in the Michael Connelly book on which the film's based, so it's not immediately certain. If Jones is taking a smaller part, there's prosecutor Ted Minton, or Haller's investigator friend Raul Levin.
John Romano (Intolerable Cruelty) adapted the book for the screen. If Jones does indeed sign on to direct, it'll be his first outing since The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and a welcome return to the megaphone.