The impressive cast list continues to grow for Ridley Scott's next project, The Counselor. Penélope Cruz is close to joining her husband, Javier Bardem, along side Michael Fassbender & Brad Pitt reports THR. Scripted by Cormac McCarthy [The Road] the setting is similar to that of McCarthy's earlier novel No Country for Old Men based around the US-Mexican border & revolves around a lawyer [Fassbender] who gets involved in drug trafficking with the help of a pair of friends [Bardem & Pitt] to solve his money problems. Cruz would play the wife of Fassbender's character.