No script has been written and no writer is yet attached. LaBeouf and De Niro’s involvement will be contingent on their approval of the final script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on a six-part series of articles published in The Oregonian in 2011, the story follows traitorous spy Jim Nicholson (De Niro) who enlists his son Nathan (LaBeouf) to continue his work.

In 1997, Jim was sentenced to 23 years in prison for treason, and 14 years later Nathan was convicted of the same offence, but signed a deal agreeing to testify against his father and was therefore only sentenced to probation.

De Niro is currently shooting David O Russell’s American Hustle, while LaBeouf recently wrapped Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.

Source: Digital Spy

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David Ayer is directing the pic from his own script.

The story follows the commander of a Sherman tank and its five-man crew on a mission behind enemy lines in April 1945 as Nazi Germany collapses.

LaBeouf would play a member of the crew.

QED Intl. is producing with John Lesher’s Le Grisbi Prods. and Ethan Smith. Alex Ott is co-producing.

Lensing is set to begin in September with a Nov. 14, 2014, release date set.

LaBeouf currently has the Sony Pictures Classic film “The Company You Keep” in theaters and has wrapped production on Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac.”

He is repped by CAA, John Crosby Management and attorney Matthew Saver.

Source: Variety

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• (x045) Events in 2012: 69th Venice Film Festival “The Company You Keep” Premiere – September 6
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Before I go on set, I have to keep myself occupied. There are too many temptations for a young person in this city, so it’s better to focus on music, reading, and work”. He is candidly referring to his troubled youth passed in Echo Park in the primarily black and Mexican area of Los Angeles. “I grew up quickly. I’m an only child: I cooked for myself when I was nine because my father was a heroin addict and my mom worked three jobs to support us. There weren’t today’s bullies at school, but we endured military-style hazing designed to humiliate you in front of the others. I was already a man at age ten”. Everyone knows the milestones in Shia’s career (the Transformers movies, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps). At 26, he’s already Hollywood’s next superstar. “I grew up admiring sensitive, honest actors like John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in Red River, which is my favorite film along with Pulp Fiction.Of the directors I’ve worked with, I have to put Oliver Stone at the top: he was decisive for me, from a creative and human perspective. He took me by the hand and we exchanged roles. We got drunk together. He taught me that to make a relationship work, you have to be vulnerable and honest”. One of his latest films is Lawless, which was presented at Cannes and will be released in Italy in December. He co-stars in the film with Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman and Jessica Chastain. “It was a very intense experience: people with different personalities giving their all in their performance, seeking truth. In our business you have to find that moment in front of the mirror that enables you to lie to yourself and fool the public. Once you discover the magic, other people’s opinions don’t count. Someone told me that while filming ‘Lincoln’ Daniel Day-Lewis walked in a room full of photos and portraits of the real president, looked around and asked, ‘Who’s that man? Get rid of those images: I’m Abraham Lincoln’. Personally, I do my best in the first takes, but I admire directors like Fincher and Kubrick who perfected their art through repetition that reached perfection after 10, 15 and 20 takes”.

Another experience that left its mark was the role of Ben in The Company You Keep, the thriller directed by Robert Redford based on a book by Neil Gordon that will be shown out of the competition at the Venice Film Festival. “Robert is really cool. He’s not just a director, but he’s also an actor, so he knows that giving the cast certain creative responsibilities can only bring benefits. Stanley Tucci and I immediately connected and we memorized each other’s lines so there were never pauses in the dialogue, the way Redford and Hoffman did in ‘All the President’s Men’. Robert knows how an actor thinks. He doesn’t need to lecture or explain the magic of acting. He comes to the set and asks, ‘Show me what you worked on: show me what you’ve got’ ”.

During the interview, many people approach him and Shia is always friendly. “I give autographs but don’t allow pictures: my face is one of the few things I control. I’ve been compared to Tom Cruise, but I don’t resemble him. I live a real life. I go out. I hang out with normal people, which helps me stay in contact with the world. One day Spielberg told me that fame turns you into two people. When Tom Cruise leaves the house, he doesn’t stick his finger up his nose. I’m not interested in this lifestyle: I didn’t start acting to become someone else. I’m a human being first, and then an actor. I behave like a human being, mistakes and fuck-ups included”.

Source: Vogue Italia

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• (x060) Events in 2012: Premiere Of The Weinstein Company’s “Lawless” – August 22
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The Transformers star has signed up to feature in The Nymphomaniac, about a young woman’s sex life, and LaBeouf admits the prospect of working with the maverick filmmaker is both thrilling and terrifying at the same time.

He told MTV.com: ”(Von Trier is) the most dangerous dude that I’ve ever showed up for. I’m terrified. I’m so terrified, which is why I have to go. We’ll see what happens.”

The script calls for the actor to get down and dirty on film – and it’s a task LaBeouf insists he is ready to take on.

The actor, who is in a relationship with stylist Karolyn Pho, said: “It’s going to be a wild movie.

“There’s a disclaimer at the top of the script that basically says we’re doing it (having sex) for real.“Everything that is illegal, we’ll shoot in blurred images. Other than that, everything is happening.”

Von Trier is expected to make two versions of the same film – one explicit for his true fanbase and one more censored for theatrical release.

LaBeouf recently declared he was done with big budget blockbusters and wanted to dedicate the rest of his life to making quality independent films with “visionaries” like von Trier and Terrence Malick.

He said: “These dudes are a miracle. They give you the money, and they trust you… (They don’t) give you the money, then get on a plane and come to the set and stick a finger up your a*** and chase you around for five months.”

Source: NZ Herald

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The reason for his surge up the list of those being considered is due to his taking of another raunchy role in Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’, a part that may see LaBeouf have actual sex on screen!

The website Policymic calls LaBeouf “one of the strongest contenders yet” for the role, and fans may get behind the actor as he’s one of the few with both blockbuster and independent movie experience who could be in with a shot.

Others speculated to be in with a shot are Ian Somerhalder, Robert Pattinson and Ryan Gosling. However the writer tipped to pen the screenplay for the movie based on the ‘mummy porn’ novel’, Brett Easton Ellis, has been sensationally left out of those considered for a spot on the film.Of those LaBeouf could be set to dominate, Emma Watson and Anna Kendrick have been talked about as taking the part of Anastasia Steele, while Kristen Stewart looks to have dropped off the radar after her much publicised affair.

Yet producers may be worried that Shia could cause a few problems on set, as he recently admitted that his drinking on the set of new movie ‘Lawless’ almost scared off castmate Mia Wasikowska.

Having starred in the likes of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ and Oliver Stone’s ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’, Shia would likely have some of Hollywood’s biggest names ready to back him. He has however fallen out with Spielberg in recent times.

Author E.L. James and producers Dana Brunetti and Mike DeLuca are yet to express a preference as to who should play Christian Grey.

Source: Entertainment Wise

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