Matthew McConaughey ready for 'Exchange'

April 16, 2009 The actor's J.K. Livin production banner is developing "Exchange Student," a comedy about two college freshmen going in opposite directions -- literally -- and has signed up-and-coming writer Mike Vukadinovich to pen the script. The tenor of the project is described as a family comedy with wry overtones a la Wes Anderson. In addition to "Exchange," Vukadinovich and J.K. Livin are developing "Jonah and the Whale," a dysfunctional-family dramedy that the writer penned as a spec.

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