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| LOS ANGELES -- John Hawkes ("The Perfect Storm") has been cast opposite Keanu Reeves and Diane Lane in Paramount Pictures' " Hardball." The project is slated to start shooting in Chicago on Monday with director Brian Robbins at the helm.
The project reteams Hawkes with Lane, his co-star in "Storm," in which Hawkes played shipmate Bugsy alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg.
"Hardball," based on the Daniel Coyle book "Hardball: A Season in the Projects," is about a ticket scalper (Reeves) who ends up coaching a Little League team in the Chicago housing projects, where he is transformed by mentoring the children. Lane will play the role of a teacher who works in the inner city, while Hawkes was cast as Reeves' best friend and fellow ticket scalper.
John Gatins adapted the book for the screen, which Robbins will produce with his partner Mike Tollin.
Hawkes, repped by Innovative Artists and Riggberg-Roberts-Rugolo and attorney Todd Rubenstein has appeared in such films as "Blue Streak," "Playing God," and "From Dusk till Dawn."
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