Bringing the same stabilizing force he lent to the once-up-in-the-air Bourne franchise, Jeremy Renner is in talks to replace Christian Bale in American Bullshit, ostensibly the next film from notoriously capricious director David O. Russell. With the increasingly busy Renner on board, anyway, the movie—just one of many projects Russell has attached himself to in recent months—definitely seems more like a lock in Russell's schedule, as nobody should be wasting Jeremy Renner's time right now. Renner will take over the role once occupied by Bale (before he became the lingering, soft-focus shot of an apple in Terrence Malick's eye), starring in the true story of a former con man who becomes the center of a complex FBI sting operation. The title is, of course, expected to change—probably to something like American Bull, or American Bull$#!*—because even with Jeremy Renner in it, you don't play the malls with "bullshit" in your name.