Matt Damon has signed on to star in a Robert F. Kennedy biopic for New Regency. Gary Ross will be directing, based on a script by Steven Knight, who is also adapting Dan Brown’s latest novel, “The Lost Symbol”.

The film will be based on the Evan Thomas biography “Robert Kennedy: His Life.”

Simon & Schuster, who published the book, describes the book;

“He was ‘Good Bobby,’ who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, ‘saw wrong and tried to right it… saw suffering and tried to heal it.’ And ‘Bad Bobby,’ the ruthless and manipulative bully of countless conspiracy theories. Thomas’s unvarnished but sympathetic and fair-minded portrayal is packed with new details about Kennedy’s early life and his behind-the-scenes machinations, including new revelations about the 1960 and 1968 presidential campaigns, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his long struggles with J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson.”

Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on this project.

By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Deadline Hollywood)