As Sneak Peek first reported March 2007, Rod "The Contender" Lurie is attached to direct a remake of "Bloody" Sam Peckinpah’s "Straw Dogs".The original 1971 film featured actors Dustin Hoffman as 'David Sumner', Susan George as 'Amy Sumner', Peter Vaughan as 'Tom Hedden', T.P. McKenna as 'Major John Scott' and David Warner as 'Henry Niles'.
The action starts after American mathematician Sumner and Brit wife Amy move back to her rural England home to escape New York City big city crime, only to be trapped and tormented by their hired help, including Amy's ex-boyfriend.
Screen Gems has set Kate "Superman Returns" Bosworth and Alexander "True Blood" Skarsgard to star alongside James "Cyclops" Marsden, with shooting scheduled to start in August.In the new version scripted by Reed "The Shield " Steiner, a Hollywood screenwriter (Marsden) relocates with his actress wife (Bosworth) to her hometown in Mississippi. Bosworth originally left the area to work in LA, but returned home so her husband could finish his script in quiet.
Skarsgard plays her former high school boyfriend.
Screenplay for the new "Straw Dogs" is by Reed "The Shield" Steiner, who will also produce...
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