After a couple of months of scrambling to find someone in the wake of Daniel Craig’s abrupt, days-before-production-started departure from the film, the producers behind courtroom drama The Whole Truth have a new leading man. Keanu Reeves will now approach the bench as a defence lawyer.
Deadline reports that Reeves has agreed to step in, playing the man employed to defend a teenage client accused of murdering his wealthy father. He’s joining a cast that already includes Renee Zellweger, Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Super 8’s Gabriel Basso.
**Frozen River **director Courtney Hunt can now gear pre-production on the film back up again, aiming to kick off shooting in early July in New Orleans, a switch from the original planned Boston locales.
As for Craig, there has been no official statement on why he decided to ditch the film at the eleventh hour, but it might have been due to a hectic schedule, since he is finishing a two-month run on Broadway and undoubtedly needs time to prepare for his next assignment as James Bond, which is scheduled to kick off shooting later this year.