Moviehole reports that Billy Bob Thornton is joining Shia LaBeouf, Michellle Monaghan and Rosario Dawson in D.J. Caruso's new DreamWorks thriller, Eagle Eye.

LaBeouf plays a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously. When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves.

Eagle Eye is scheduled for an October 10, 2008 release.