Shia LaBeouf to star in Robert Redford's upcoming political thriller!

From Variety:

Robert Redford and Shia LaBeouf are set to star in Voltage Pictures and Wildwood Enterprises' political action thriller The Company You Keep.

Redford will direct from a script by Lem Dobbs (The Limey), who adapted the novel by Neil Gordon.

Redford will play a former Weather Underground militant wanted by the FBI for 30 years who must go on the run when a young, ambitious reporter exposes his true identity. LaBeouf will play the budding journalist who's determined to make a name for himself.

Wildwood's Redford and Bill Holderman will produce along with Nicolas Chartier of Voltage, whose Craig J. Flores will exec produce.

Robert Redford will star in a Branch Ricky/Jackie Robinson flick!

From The Los Angeles Times:

He starred in one of the most famous fictional baseball movies of all time. Now Robert Redford looks to play one of the most famous real-life baseball figures of all time.

The "Natural" star is on board to play Branch Rickey in a long-gestating, recently jump-started version of a historical drama involving the Brooklyn Dodgers executive and Jackie Robinson, the black player he famously signed.

The as-yet untitled film will be financed by Thomas Tull's Legendary Pictures, which has a first-look deal with Warner Bros. and a long history of co-financing pictures with them. Robinson's part is not yet cast.

"L.A. Confidental" and "Mystic River" writer Brian Helgeland will write and direct the film, Redford said, penning a draft of an earlier version written by, among others, "John Adams" scribe Kirk Ellis. A Helgeland representative declined to comment. A source close to Legendary said that Helgeland will be offering an original take.