Jonah Hill & James Franco Set for True Story

It appears Moneyball wasn't a fluke. Jonah Hill is serious about changing the course of his career. Good on him. "TOLDJA" reports in lieu of his Oscar nomination and new lease of life, sticking with the weight loss (Friend of mine told me he ate nothing but vegetables during the 21 Jump Street shoot and refused to eat meat!) he's attached to True Story with fellow Judd Apatow-alum James Franco, based on the book True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa.

Here's the official synopsis of the originating book courtesy of Coming Soon:

"On February 2002, New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel received a startling piece of news: a young man named Christian Longo, wanted for killing his entire family, had been captured in Mexico, where he'd taken on a new identity: Michael Finkel of the New York Times.

The next day, on page A-3 of the Times, came another troubling item: a note from the editors explaining that Finkel, having falsified parts of an investigative article, had been fired. Nonetheless, the only journalist Longo would speak with was the real Michael Finkel, and so Finkel placed a call to Oregon's Lincoln County jail, intent on getting the true story. So began a bizarre and intense relationship—a reporting job that morphed into a shrewd game of cat-and-mouse. Part mystery, part memoir, part mea culpa, True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth."

Hill will play the actual Michael Finkel and Franco as Logo for director Rupert Goold and producer Brad Pitt via his Plan B production company.