Tommy Lee Jones is in negotiations to direct and co-star with Matthew McConaughey in The Lincoln Lawyer.

Based on the 2005 best-seller by Michael Connelly, ...Lawyer centres on Mickey Haller (McConaughey), a wheeler-dealer Los Angeles lawyer who operates out of the back of his Lincoln.

Haller is content with a career defending garden-variety criminals until he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder.

It's unclear what role Jones would play; the playboy character, which could be the second male lead, is described in the book as somewhat younger than Jones, though the part could be adjusted to accommodate an older interpretation.

John Romano (Intolerable Cruelty) penned the screenplay.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter