Shane Black, Joel Silver & Russell Crowe Team Up For ‘The Nice Guys’

Lethal Weapon duo Shane Black and Joel Silver are going to work together once again, this time with Russell Crowe and, uh… Ryan Gosling.

The Nice Guys seems to be finally getting off the ground.  Joel Silver is producing via his Silver Pictures banner and will be shopping the project to studios and independent financiers in the coming days, as various development executives have been closely tracking “Nice Guys.”

Set in smoggy 1970s Los Angeles, story follows Jackson Healy (muscle-for-hire, recovering alcoholic) and Holland March (private eye, practicing alcoholic), who are brought together by the suicide of a fading porn star. However, the dead girl’s aunt is convinced she saw her niece alive and well after the highly publicized incident. March needs money, takes the case, and within days, it’s blossomed into a far-reaching murder conspiracy, bizarrely rooted in smog and the U.S. auto industry.

Shane Black, Joel Silver?  Sign us up.  But show Gosling the door…

Source: [TheWrap]