Robert Redford to keep company with Shia LaBeouf in political thriller

Robert Redford has cast Shia LaBeouf in his forthcoming political thriller The Company You Keep, based on the novel by American author Neil Gordon, according to Variety . LaBeouf will play a journalist who exposes Redford's character, Jim Grant, as a former member of the Weather Underground, the radical leftwing group formed in the late-60s that plotted to overthrow the US government. Grant is wanted by the FBI for his role in a bank robbery. It will be Redford's first role since 2007's Lions for Lambs, another political thriller directed by the All the President's Men star. Gordon's book has been adapted by Lem Dobbs, screenwriter on 1999's The Limey. The story is told through Redford's character's emails to his daughter, which attempt to explain his violent past. "The book is written in five or six voices and is composed entirely of a series of emails - adapting that to the screen was a huge job, and they did it amazingly well," Gordon told the Guardian. "My hope for the adaptation has always been that the narrative structure be thoroughly re-imagined for a different medium, that it be historically and politically complex, as a novel can be, while as visually lush and beautiful as Robert Redford's films always are."