Shia LaBeouf’s following in the footsteps of Tom Cruise and Matthew McConaughey.

Young Shia has been tapped to play the lead in a new John Grisham film called The Associate.

It’ll be the first Grisham film to hit the big screen since 2005.

According to Variety, Shia will play a student who’s about to graduate from Yale Law School when he’s manipulated into accepting a job at a prestige law firm and given privileged information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.

Shia’s growing up so fast!

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