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Kate Bosworth and James Marsden to star in Straw Dogs remake
17 July 2009 2:14 PM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news
Straw Dogs, the brutal 1971 movie from Sam Peckinpah, is getting a revisit by writer/director Rod Lurie (The Last Castle).
Kate Bosworth, (21), James Marsden, and Alexander Skarsgard are set to star in the film which will begin shooting in August.
A bit different from the original movie’s synopsis, Luries’ version goes like this: “Marsden plays a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his wife to her hometown in Mississippi. Bosworth plays the wife, who left the south for L.A. to become an actress and returns home so her husband can finish the script in quiet. Skarsgard plays her high school boyfriend, an ex-football hero who sees the return of his former girlfriend as a way to reclaim glory.”
Lurie and Marc Frydman are producing the film through Battleplan Productions. The man who brought the story to Screen Gems, Gilbert Dumontet, will executive produce.
For those who haven’t seen the (pretty great) original,
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Nick Allen
Skarsgard and Bosworth Join Straw Dogs Remake
17 July 2009 | From Horror Asylum | See recent Horror Asylum news
'True Blood' fans will know him better as Eric Northman but it seems actor Alexander Skarsgard has landed a role in the upcoming remake of Sam Peckinpah's cult 70's 'Straw Dogs'. The remake, scheduled for release next year, is currently in pre-production and is set to star James Marsden. Kate Bosworth will also be re-joining Marsden after their stint together on 'Superman Returns'. This time around Marsden will play a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his ...
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Actors Tapped For Straw Dogs Remake
17 July 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news
Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard are set to star alongside James Marsden in Screen Gems’ “Straw Dogs,” a “reimagining” of the original 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah. Rod Lurie wrote the script and is directing, with shooting set to start in August 2009. Marsden plays a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his actress wife, played by Bosworth, to her hometown in Mississippi. Skarsgard will play her high school boyfriend, an ex-football hero who sees her coming home as a way to reclaim lost glory. The original film was controversial upon its release for its violence and scenes of rape, and for what was viewed as glorification of misogyny and vigilantism. [...]
Costa Koutsoutis
Casting Bites: Dafoe, Straw Dogs, Dames, and Dempsey
16 July 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Some mid-week casting nibblets:
The wonderful Willem Dafoe is about to make a trip to Mars. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Dafoe has signed on to play Tars Tarkas in the Civil War/space project John Carter of Mars. Seeing Dafoe take a slight pause from his horror-filled schedule is nice, and it's even better that Tarkas is both a great warrior and compassionate man -- a gig that Dafoe should be able to tackle easily. But there is a twist -- Dafoe is once again going green for a gig. This is what Tarkas looks like.
And it's been a while since we got casting news for Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs remake, but now Variety reports that Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard are joining the roster. Bosworth will play James Marsden's wife, as they leave Hollywood for her Mississippi hometown. Skarsgard will play her old high school boyfriend and ex-football hero.
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Monika Bartyzel
Kate Bosworth Signs Up For 'Straw Dogs'
16 July 2009 5:25 PM, PDT | From www.actressarchives.com | See recent Actress Archives news
Anyone familiar with Sam Peckinpah's 1971 classic "Straw Dogs" knows that very likely, Sony's upcoming remake can't be very loyal to its source material. Featuring intense scenes of animal cruelty, bloody violence and even gang rape, one indeed wonders why Sony would even consider "reimagining" the film in the first place.In any case, Variety.com reports today the film now has its leading couple. Playing protagonist David Sumner (a mathematician in the original and now a Hollywood screenwriter) is "X-Men's" James Marsden, with the role ...
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Cast found for Straw Dogs remake
16 July 2009 1:25 PM, PDT | From Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news
The legendary film director Sam Peckinpah was already known for his propencity to show audiences gore-filled action sequences by the time his film Straw Dogs was released in 1971. Peckinpah, known for his westerns like The Wild Bunch, never shyed away from depicting violence on-screen and the aftermath of its consequences. Even so, when Straw Dogs came out it created a media uproar over its controversial scene of rape and the descent of Dustin Hoffman's character from a timid husband to brutal killer.
Now Rod Lurie (The Contender) has set his sights on remaking Straw Dogs and has cast the film's three main roles. James Marsden is playing the Hoffman character, now envisioned as a Hollywood screenwriter who takes his would-be actress wife to live in the South so he can finish writing his latest screenplay. Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns) has been cast as Marsden's wife and Alexander Skarsgard (True
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Patrick Sauriol
Bosworth and Skarsgard join the 'Straw Dogs'
16 July 2009 1:07 PM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news
Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard will star alongside James Marsden in "Straw Dogs," a reimagining of the 1971 Sam Peckinpah film.According to Variety, Rod Lurie wrote the script and will direct. Shooting is scheduled to begin in August.Marsden plays a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his wife to her hometown in Mississippi. Bosworth plays the wife, who left the South for L.A. to become an actress and returns home so her husband can finish his script in quiet. Skarsgard plays her high school boyfriend, an ex-football hero who sees the return of his former girlfriend as a way to reclaim glory.Marc Frydman and Lurie are producing through their Battleplan Productions banner. Gilbert Dumontet, who brought the project to Screen Gems,
Adnan Tezer
The Great "Straw Dogs" to be Remade with "True Blood" Star
16 July 2009 12:23 PM, PDT | From Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news
Sam Peckinpah's 1971 masterpiece is getting a remake makeover!
Screen Gems has attached Kate Bosworth ("Superman Returns") and Alexander Skarsgard ("True Blood") to star alongside James Marsden (he and Bosworth co-starred in "Superman Returns") in this remake.
The fantastic Rod Lurie ("Nothing but the Truth") wrote the script and is set to direct.
In the original, Dustin Hoffman starred as David Sumner who comes to rural England with his English wife. There, the couple face vicious harassment from the locals. It's nail-biting drama at its best, shown with the trademark Peckinpah style.
In the remake, Marsden will play the David Sumner character, but this time, he and his wife (Bosworth) are relocating to her hometown in Mississippi. Gothic south replaces England in this film.
Skarsgard will play Bosworth's high school sweetheart who sees the return of his ex-girlfriend as a way to reclaim victory.
The original has shades of social commentary,
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Manny
Two More for Lurie’s Straw Dogs Remake
16 July 2009 9:57 AM, PDT | From Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news
Add two more to Rob Lurie’s remake of the Sam Peckinpah 1971 thriller “Straw Dogs” — Variety reports that True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard will be swapping his fangs for missing teeth as a local, while Kate Bosworth will be rejoining her “Superman Returns” co-star James Marsden. Bosworth will play the wife of Marsden’s character, a big-shot Hollywood screenwriter who moves back to the sticks where his wife, a failed actress, grew up in order to write his latest script. There, the two are terrorized by the locals. Skarsgard, who recently lost out on the “Thor” role to Aussie Chris Hemsworth, will play one of the locals, a former high school jock and boyfriend of Kate Bosworth’s character. If the remake follows the storyline of the original, Bosworth’s character won’t be entirely opposed to the advances of Skarsgard’s character. Of course, it would probably make more
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Nix
New $45 Million Man Ryan Seacrest Slithers to CAA
16 July 2009 7:30 AM, PDT | From Movieline | See recent Movieline news
· I don't pretend to know the politics or trajectory of Ryan Seacrest's relationship with his longtime agents at William Morris or their new partners from Endeavor. But to openly exclude them from his lucrative American Idol contract negotiations, pay zero commission and then jump to CAA (also no commission) to give the Death Star locks on himself, Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller -- thus putting AI's nuts firmly, even more permanently in CAA's loving grip? Well, that's just not very nice at all. But cheer up, Ari! Aretha Franklin just signed on! [Dhd]
Kate Bosworth goes to the Dogs, DreamWorks finds money, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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Straw Dogs Remake Rounds Up Cast
16 July 2009 6:06 AM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news
Variety have named Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard, alongside the previously cast James Marsden, as the three key players in the Straw Dogs remake. Marsden will be playing a screenwriter relocating to Mississippi from La, Bosworth his wife who travelled to La La Land with aspirations to become an actress, and Skarsgard her high school boyfriend who sees her return home to Mississippi as a way to reignite his lost reputation in the town. When I heard that Straw Dogs is being remade, I wanted to hear that it would be handled by a director as unflinching and uncompromising as Sam Peckinpah, helmsman of the original (Chan Wook Park would have been ideal, for example). That it is Rod Lurie in charge, sometime film critic now best known for (occasionally polemical) political dramas like The Contender or TV's Commander In Chief, leaves me both weary and a little curious. Whatever
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Brendon Connelly
Alexander Skarsgard And Kate Bosworth Join 'Straw Dogs' Remake
16 July 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news
Alexander Skarsgard may have lost the chance to wield Thor's hammer, but at least he'll get to terrorize the heck out of Cyclops and Lois Lane. According to Variety, Skarsgard and Kate Bosworth are set to costar with James Marsden in "Straw Dogs," Rod Lurie's controversial remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 classic thriller.
Peckinpah's original "Dogs" is the tale of a timid college professor named David (Dustin Hoffman) who relocates to his wife's native town of Cornwall. The distant intellectual immediately alienates the local workmen, who take a fancy to his wife Amy, who is herself feeling neglected by her husband. Tension builds between the couple, and between Amy and the workmen (one of whom is her ex-lover), eventually erupting into savage, horrific violence. "Dogs" was extremely controversial when it was released in 1971, and it remains a film of fierce debate.
Rod Lurie has "updated" the story to focus
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Elisabeth Rappe
Straw Dogs Redux Casting News
16 July 2009 2:43 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news
Much to the chagrin of many Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs (based upon the book The Siege at Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams) is getting itself a Hollywood make-over. Can director Rod Lurie capture the essence of the original masterpiece and successfully update it for our times? Well the jury is still out, but the cast is shaping up nicely.
Variety reports that Kate Bosworth and "True Blood"'s Alexander Skarsgard (pictured right) have both signed on to join the previously announced James Marsden in this epic-sized endeavor.
"Marsden plays a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his wife to her hometown in Mississippi. Bosworth plays the wife, who left the South for La to become an actress and returns home so her husband can finish his script in quiet. Skarsgard plays her high school boyfriend, an ex-football hero who sees the return of his former girlfriend as a way to reclaim glory.
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Uncle Creepy
"Straw Dogs" to be remade.
16 July 2009 2:43 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news
Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard will star alongside James Marsden in the reimagining of the 1971 Sam Peckinpah classic "Straw Dogs." Rod Lurie penned the screenplay and will be directing. Filming is scheduled to begin this August. Hollywood screenwriter (Marsden) relocates to his Mississippi hometown with his wife (Bosworth) to her hometown in Mississippi. Bosworth's character was born in the South and left home to pursue acting and now returns with her husband so he can finish writing his script in peace. Skarsgard plays Bosworth high school beau who is an ex-football hero and sees the return of his former love as a way to recapture glory.
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Kate Bosworth joins the new Straw Dogs
16 July 2009 12:55 AM, PDT | From TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news
Kate Bosworth and True Blood's Alexander Skarsgard have joined the cast of Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs "re-imagining". James Marsden is already aboard, playing a version of the character made famous by Dustin Hoffman in Sam Peckinpah's controversial 1971 original. Marsden and Bosworth respectively play a screenwriter and wife, who move from Hollywood to her old home town in Mississippi so he can get some peace to bash out his latest opus. But - much like the original couple - they discover that the town's locals (including local... .
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James White
Daily news dose: Seth Gordon to direct 'King Dork;' 'Straw Dogs' and 'Bounty Hunter' casting updates
15 July 2009 11:21 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news
Here is your dose of film news for July 16, 2009:
• Christine Baranski has signed on to star in Andy Tennant's comedy "Bounty Hunter," which also stars Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler and Jason Sudeikis. Butler plays a bounty hunter hired to find and bring in his ex-wife (Aniston) because she skipped bail. Baranski plays Aniston's mom. (Variety)
• Kate Bosworth (pictured above) and Alexander Skarsgard are joining James Marsden in Rod Lurie's reimagining of "Straw Dogs." The film will focus on a screenwriter whose relationship with his wife starts to change for the worse after they move to her hometown in the South. Bosworth plays the wife, with Skarsgard set to play her ex-boyfriend. (Variety)
• Seth Gordon, director of "Four Christmases," is in talks to direct "King Dork," based on Frank Portman's novel. Story follows a high school student who finds refuge from all his troubles in music. He
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Franck Tabouring
Straw Dogs Remake Nabs Cast
15 July 2009 10:58 PM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news
Rod Lurie’s remake of Sam Peckinpah’s ‘70s classic, Straw Dogs, is coming together, with the news that Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard have joined the already-cast James Marsden in the siege thriller.Bosworth, whose Lois Lane was engaged to Marsden’s Richard White in Superman Returns, will go one better this time by playing the actress wife of Marsden’s screenwriter character.When he needs to finish a script in peace, Bosworth brings Marsden back to her hometown in Mississippi, catching the eye of her former boyfriend (Skarsgard, son of Stellan!), and inciting passions that will, all too soon, leave the happy couple fighting for their very lives.That’s if, of course, Lurie follows the Peckinpah template. If he does, then Marsden – in the Dustin Hoffman role – is going to become a nerd tornado, while Bosworth – in the Susan George part – will have a scene that is bound to cause controversy.
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Straw Dogs Remake Adds Two
15 July 2009 10:31 PM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news
True Blood star Alexander Skarsgard, who at one point was in the running for Thor, and Kate Bosworth have joined the cast of Screen Gems’ Straw Dogs, a reimagining of the controversial 1971 Sam Peckinpah film. The two join the previously cast James Marsden. Rod Lurie (Nothing But the Truth, The Contender) wrote the script and is directing the film, which centers on a Hollywood screenwriter (Marsden) who relocates with his wife to her hometown in Mississippi. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, leading to a violent confrontation. Bosworth plays the wife, who left the South for La. to become an actress and returns home so her husband can finish his script in quiet. Skarsgard plays her high school boyfriend, an ex-football hero who sees the return of his former girlfriend as a way to reclaim glory. The original, which Peckinpah co-wrote with David Zelag Goodman,
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James Cook
Update: Alexander Skarsgard and Kate Bosworth Set To Star in 'Straw Dogs' Remake
15 July 2009 9:23 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Update: Okay, now Kate Bosworth has been confirmed by Variety as Marsden's wife in the feature. As much as the Skarsgard casting impressed me, Bosworth's addition... not so much. On top of that, the more fleshed out storyline from Variety sounds rather generic to me. I updated the article below to contain all the new information. Well, I am not exactly excited for Rod Lurie's update on Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, but the idea "True Blood" co-star Alexander Skarsgard has landed a role has me a little more optimistic as he has joined the cast along with Kate Bosworth. James Marsden stars in the film in a role that was previously occupied by Dustin Hoffman in the 1971 original thriller I urge all of you to watch, but it appears this remake is going to hardly be anything like the original and is beginning to smell truly vanilla. Marsden plays
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Brad Brevet
Skarsgard and Bosworth Cast in Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs
15 July 2009 9:07 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news
We've already heard quite a bit about this Straw Dogs remake before. James Marsden is set to star and Nothing But the Truth director Rod Lurie wrote the screenplay and is directing. And now Alexander Skarsgard has joined the cast as well as Kate Bosworth. Marsden plays a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his wife to her hometown in Mississippi. Bosworth plays the wife, who left the South to become an actress and returns home so her husband can finish his script in quiet. Skarsgard plays her high school boyfriend, an ex-football hero who sees the return of his former girlfriend as a way to reclaim glory. Alexander Skarsgard, who is actor Stellan Skarsgard's son, currently stars on "True Blood" and was also in "Generation Kill" before that. At one point he was rumored to be the frontrunner for the lead in Kenneth Branagh's Thor before Chris Hemsworth
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Alex Billington
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