As Variety reports, rom-com whore, all-around decent actor and attractive male movie star Matthew McConaughey is set to star in Lakeshore Entertainment’s The Lincoln Lawyer, based on Michael Connelly’s novel of the same name.

One presumes McConaughey will play Mickey Haller, the “Lincoln Lawyer” the book revolves around. The nickname comes from the style in which Haller operates – travelling all around L.A. in a Lincoln town car defending a smorgasboard of clients, innocence be damned.

For more on the plot, check out the synopsis on Connelly’s Web site.

In the realm of literary court dramas involving murder and mystery, this storyline does not appear to original from the rest. But then Connelly tends to succeed where lesser writers, like John Grisham, fail. And McConaughey did kind do a great job as the young idealistic lawyer in 1996′s A Time To Kill, which was based on a book (and one of the best books) written by who? Yes, that’s right. John Grisham.

I feel like it will all come down to who writes and directs this thing. It could either be Runaway Jury or The Pelican Brief.

What does everyone think? Yes? No? Maybe McConaughey will pull it off?