Sigh…Wooden actress Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard have joined the James Marsden led, Rod Lurie-directed remake of Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs.”
Marsden plays the role made famous by Dustin Hoffman in the original — a Hollywood screenwriter who relocates with his wife (Susan George in the original) to her hometown, transposed from idyllic British countryside to Mississippi for the remake.
Bosworth will play his wife who postpones her L.A. actress aspirations to return home for her husband while 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, who last helmed, “Nothing But The Truth,’ wrote the screenplay and will direct. How James Marsden can compensate or hope to live up to Dustin Hoffman’s performance is a mystery. Remake mediocre movies with a great premise gone wrong. Why remake a perfect film, with a milquetoast cast? We’ll never understand moves like this. This thing is scheduled to shoot in August. [Variety/ photo from Firstshowing, who did a much better job than we did]