Matthew McConaughey is in talks to star in the Don Cheadle directorial debut
Tishomingo Blues, which is an adaptation of the Elmore Leonard best seller according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Don Cheadle is also set to star with George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh producing through their Section Eight company.
Tishomingo Blues is set in Mississippi, birthplace of the blues, and centers on Dennis Lenahan (McConaughey), a circus high diver staying at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino who happens to witness a murder by local members of the Dixie Mafia. Robert Taylor (Cheadle), a slick con artist bent on taking over the mob's drug business, also witnesses the crime. Lenahan and Taylor become friends, and through a series of events, the killers, drug-dealing cronies, shady businessmen and the con artist all find themselves performing in Lenahan's Civil War re-enactment -- but the ammunition may be real.
Blues is set to go into production at the start of September with a budget of $15 million.