Matthew McConaughey and Eva Mendes are in talks to team in "
Southbound," an independently financed drama that will be directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz ("Secuestro Express").
In the Peter Craig-scripted drama, McConaughey plays a patrol officer on the border between California and Mexico who accepts a bribe from a beautiful Mexican woman, 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.