Lionsgate has acquired the rights to produce a big-screen adaptation of the Michael Connelly novel “The Lincoln Lawyer”, from Lakeshore and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.

Matthew McConaughey and Marisa Tomei are set to star alongside Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, John Leguizamo, Michael Pena, Trace Adkins, and Katherine Moennig.

Brad Furman (“The Take”) is directing based on Johnn Romano’s script. The film is about cut-rate LA criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller (McConaughey), who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental sedan. When he suddenly upgrades from getting parole violators and small-time crooks off to defending a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder, suddenly the game gets a whole lot more serious as he finds his own life targeted.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Lionsgate)