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Jason Reitman‘s next film, “Young Adult,” already has Charlize Theron signed up to play the female lead.

Now I’m told that Josh Brolin, one of the best actors of his generation, may join the project as the male lead.

Diablo Cody, who won many awards for writing Reitman’s big bit, “Juno,” is the author here, too. According to the imdb.com. “Young Adult” is about a divorced writer (Theron) who returns to her mid west hometown and reconnects with her old flame–now married with kids. Brolin would be perfect with Theron in a comedy. They are both very funny and don’t get to show it so much in their films.

Brolin is having quite a year in 2010–this fall he’s in “Wall Street 2,” the Woody Allen film “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” and wraps it up in December with the Coen Brothers’ remake of “True Grit.” His wife, Diane Lane, is also getting a lot of great buzz as the lead in “Secretariat,” playing Penny Chenery, who owned the famous race horse.

Remember I told you this on August 11, 2010: Brolin and Lane will be the first husband and wife with Oscar nominations this season.

Roger Friedman

Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News. Friedman previously wrote the Intelligencer column at New York Magazine, He writes for Parade magazine and has written for Details, Vogue, the New York Times, Post, and Daily News and many other publications. He is the writer and co-producer of a film about R&B Music called “Only the Strong Survive,” which was released by Miramax in 2003 and was a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals.