Here’s a bit of a turn up for the books. Apparently Matthew McCounaughey doesn’t always have to make awful romantic comedies or action films that flop, as he’s is talks to appear in an indie borderland drama called Southbound. Presumably he just looked at the script and as long it has a scene in the first 20 pages where he gets to take his shirt off, that was enough for him to get interested.
To be honest though, it’s probably a good move for him, because while he seems determined to act like his aging slaccked character in Dazed & Confused, McConaughey has ocassionally shown that he can act, and if he makes many more movie like Ghost Of Girlfriends Past, people are going to completely forget why the hell he became a star in the first place.
Southbound is about a US border patrol agent, to be played by McConaughey, who accepts a bribe from a beautiful Mexican woman (Eva Mendes), putting his family in danger and landing him in the middle of a war between the Mexican crime families and the U.S. immigration police.
At the moment neither Mendes or McConaughey have officially signed on to the independent film, which is based on a script by Peter Craig and will be directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. There’s no news on when the movie might go into production.