Berry and Billy Bob to team up for real-life thriller

Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton are set to reteam for a fact-based movie thriller.

The couple, who steamed up movie screens in Monster's Ball, are in final talks to star in a race drama, based on Nate Blakesee's bestseller 'Tulia: Race, Cocaine & Corruption in a Small Texas Town'.

The story follows the efforts of a real-life lawyer, who attempted to expose a string of corrupt and racially motivated drug convictions in Tulia, Texas in the late 1990s.

Shooting is slated to begin at the end of April in New Orleans, Louisiana, according to website FilmStew.com.