Hilary Swank joins Matthew McConaughey for The Dallas Buyers Club!

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Matthew McConaughey and two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank have joined The Dallas Buyer’s Club, signing on to star in the real-life drama from Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee (The Young Victoria).

The film centers on Ron Woodroof, a Texas electrician diagnosed with AIDS who began smuggling alternative drugs into the U.S. to help himself and other AIDS patients. His actions put him on a collision course with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was bent on keeping the drugs out of the country. Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack adapted Woodroof’s story for the screen.

The long delayed project The Dallas Buyer's Club has another new star and director?

Apparently so, according to 24 Frames:

There are few movie projects in Hollywood that have had as as many big-name supporters -- and stops and starts -- as "The Dallas Buyer's Club."

A 1980s-set true story about a trafficker in illegal AIDS drugs, the drama has attracted some of the movie world's biggest names over the past decade.

Brad Pitt was interested in starring in it for years. Top-flight filmmaker Marc Forster had at one time been set to direct it. "Babel" scribe Guillermo Ariaga once wrote a draft of the script, back in 2002. The producers of "Children of Men," Strike Entertainment, have long been on board to produce it. (They still are.)

In 2008, the project seemed to get new life when reports had Ryan Gosling coming on to star, with his "Lars & the Real Girl" director, Craig Gillespie, behind the camera. That didn't take either.

Now the project has a new A-lister and an emerging director who will again try to put it over the top: Matthew McConaughey is attached to star in the movie, the actor confirms, while "The Young Victoria" filmmaker Jean Marc Vallee will direct it.