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"Michael Fassbender is in talks to appear in The Counselor, it has been reported. The X-Men: First Class star is in negotiations with helmer Ridley Scott, with whom he has been working under on Prometheus. Deadline claims that there is a &amp;quot;high likelihood&amp;quot; the duo will reteam for the project, which is based on an original screenplay by The Road author Cormac McCarthy. The story follows a lawyer who lands himself in danger dabbling in the drugs trade. Producers Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz snapped up McCarthy&amp;#039;s script last month. Scott committed himself to the project shortly after, confirming it as his follow-up to Prometheus. &amp;quot;The spec falls smack in the middle of what everyone responds to with Cormac&amp;#039;s novels,&amp;quot; said Steve Schwartz. &amp;quot;Since McCarthy himself wrote the script, we get his own muscular prose directly, with its sexual obsessions.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a masculine world into which, unusually, two women intrude to play leading roles. McCarthy&amp;#039;s wit and humour in the dialogue make the nightmare even scarier. This may be one of McCarthy&amp;#039;s most disturbing and powerful works.&amp;quot; The Counselor is scheduled to begin shooting in May. Watch a trailer for Prometheus below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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