First movie role since rehab ... Actor Gerard Butler at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in West Hollywood, California. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images/AFP Source: AFP
The Daily Telegraph reports
Australian actor Eric Bana is out of Robert Luketic's diamond heist thriller Brilliant.
Bana, 43, has been replaced by Gerard Butler.
Bana was first linked to the role back in September 2011, but has since been recruited to an as-yet-untitled terrorism thriller from Intermission director John Crowley, magazine Variety reported.
Butler, who starred in the 2006 movie 300, will play a small-time crook who gets dragged into a major robbery and will see Butler and Luketic reunite for the first time since their 2009 romantic comedy The Ugly Truth.
Cameron Diaz will portray Butler's female accomplice in Brilliant and a female lead is still to be recruited, according to Variety.
Butler's reported signing comes days after the 42-year-old completed a three-week rehab programme to combat a prescription drug dependency.
He was last seen in Marc Foster's Machine Gun Preacher, where he played a drug-dealing biker-turned-protector of Sudanese child soldiers.
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