Eagle Eye News
Michelle Monaghan has 'Eagle Eye'
08/08/07Michelle Monaghan has signed to join Shia LaBeouf in "Eagle Eye," the DreamWorks thriller that D.J. Caruso will direct for DreamWorks. Production begins in the fall. Paramount will distribute the film worldwide. Monaghan plays a single mother who forms an unlikely alliance with LaBeouf as they are framed as terrorists and are forced to join a cell plotting a political assassination. Hillary Seitz wrote the most recent draft. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Pat Crowley and Ed McDonnell are producing.
'Disturbia' duo set for 'Eagle Eye'
06/25/07DreamWorks is reteaming "Disturbia" star Shia LaBeouf and director D.J. Caruso for "Eagle Eye," a thriller that will shoot in the fall. LaBeouf, who stars in the Michael Bay-directed DreamWorks/Paramount actioner "Transformers," is finalizing a deal to play a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously. When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves. Dan McDermott wrote the script based on an original idea by Steven Spielberg; Hillary Seitz is rewriting.
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