Robert Redford and Brendan Gleeson team up in tense new thriller (INDEPENDENT)

HOLLYWOOD-legend Robert Redford and Brendan Gleeson have teamed up in a new thriller, which is soon to open in the US.

In All the President's Men, Robert Redford famously played a reporter hunting clues that led to President Richard Nixon's downfall. In The Company You Keep, the Oscar winner is the one who is hunted by a journalist, this time played by Shia LaBeouf.

Unlike the 1976 account of the Watergate scandal, The Company You Keep is a fictional thriller based on a 2003 novel by Neil Gordon, and follows a former leftwing American militant whose past comes back to haunt him.

Redford plays Jim Grant, a respectable lawyer and widower with a young daughter whose life is thrown into turmoil when his secret identity, as a member of The Weather Underground decades earlier, is revealed by a tenacious reporter.

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Yet another role being lined up for Colin Firth?

Russell Crowe is rumoured to be in the frame to play Rupert Murdoch.

The Gladiator star, 48, is thought to be in line to star as the Australian media mogul in the screen adaptation of former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans' memoirs, Good Times, Bad Times, the Evening Standard reports.

Meanwhile, Oscar-winner Colin Firth is said to be tipped for a part as Sir Harold.
Leon Lecash, creative director of filmmakers What's It All About? told the newspaper: "The film will be a drama, when Citizen Kane meets All The President's Men, either for the big screen or television.


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