The Eagle Has Cast

Posted by Jennifer del Rosario (jennifer@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 14, 2007

When people fall in love with Shia LaBeouf, they just can’t get enough of him. Spielberg cast him in The Fourth Installment of the Indian Jones Adventure and he executively produced LaBeouf’s summer’s blockbuster Transformers. Apparently, he’s the next Tom Hanks. Now Disturbia director D.J. Caruso and star LaBeouf team up again for DreamWorks’ new thriller Eagle Eye. Once you go Shia, you can’t go back.

LaBeouf will star as a young slacker along side Michelle Monaghan, who is set to play a single mother. Both characters are framed as terrorists and form an unlikely alliance as they are on the run from the government and those who framed them. Rosario Dawson joins the cast as a government agent trailing the pair.

Monaghan has just completed The Heartbreak Kid with Ben Stiller due out in October.

Dawson was last seen in Death Proof and has a number of projects in the works, such as Zack And Miri Make A Porno and Sin City 2. Funny, I just realized that she was also in A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, another LaBeouf film.

Paramount will distribute the film.

Written by Hillary Seitz and to be produced by Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci with Pat Crowley and Ed McDonnell, Eagle Eye is slated to begin filming this fall.

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