Gerard
Butler has replaced Eric Bana as the lead in diamond heist thriller Brilliant.
The 300
star will play a small-time crook who gets dragged into a major robbery in
Robert Luketic's upcoming thriller. Bana was first linked to the role back in
September 2011, but has since been recruited to an as-yet-untitled terrorism
thriller from Intermission director John Crowley.
The
move sees Butler and Luketic reunite for the first time since their 2009
romantic comedy The Ugly Truth. Cameron
Diaz will portray Butler's female accomplice in Brilliant and a female lead is
still to be recruited, according to Variety.
Butler's
reported signing comes mere days after the 42-year-old completed a three-week
rehab programme to combat a prescription drug dependency.
He was last seen in Marc Foster's Machine Gun Preacher,
where he played a drug-dealing biker-turned-protector of Sudanese child
soldiers.
Source: Digital Spy
/Film
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