As reported earlier, Owen Wilson’s personal issues left an unexpected casting hole in the upcoming film Tropic Thunder.  Luckily, another beach bum was able to slide into the role.

Matthew McConaughey will now be joining the film directed by Ben Stiller.  Tropic—also starring Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey, Jr.—is about a group of actors who have to assume the soldier roles they’re playing in a movie.

Expect to see Tropic in theaters next July.