Tommy Lee Jones is negotiating to take the director’s seat for The Lincoln Lawyer, an adaptation of the Michael Connelly novel, according to Risky Biz. Matthew McConaughey is set to star as a lawyer who operates out of a Lincoln Town Car and typically defends low profile criminals and drug dealers until he gets the shot to defend a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder. Jones would also co-star, although it’s unclear in what role. John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe, story for Intolerable Cruelty) wrote the script.
Tommy Lee Jones previously directed The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and is also set to direct The Sunset Limited for HBO, in which he stars with Samuel L. Jackson.
