According to
The Hollywood Reporter, James Marsden is headlining Screen Gems remake of the 1971 film
Straw Dogs.
Rod Lurie is writing and directing.
The film is a remake of the 1971 thriller that starred Dustin Hoffman. The original revolved around a young American and his English wife who move to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
In this new film Marsden plays an LA screenwriter who moves with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. Suddenly, tensions develop in their marriage and "old conflicts" start up again with the local residents.
Sam Peckinpah co-wrote and directed the original film. Both the old and new film are based on Gordon Williams' book, "The Siege at Trencher's Farm."
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However, placing it in the deep South seems to make sense, maybe even more so than the original English setting. And casting James Marsden-an actor with a long history of playing the goody-two-shoes character (with Sex Drive as a notable exception), has me intrigued.
To put it bluntly, now I'm a bit interested...
FUCKING JAMES MARSDEN CAN'T ACT EITHER!!!!!!