Today, Lionsgate announced the start of production on Kim Jee-Woon’s THE LAST STAND, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. We’ve known about a few of the additional cast members in the flick – Eduardo Noriega, Zach Gilford, Rodrigo Santoro, Peter Stormare and Jaimie Alexander – but the official press release about the film’s commencement of principal photography revealed a new batch of cool names.
Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Luis Guzman and Harry Dead Stanton have all come aboard the thriller, which is shooting in Nevada and New Mexico. Details on the characters the new guys are playing are not available just yet, but there’s little doubt that we’ve got an intriguingly eclectic group on our hands here.
Schwarzenegger stars as Sheriff Owens, a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled. After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the hemisphere is hurtling toward the border at 200 mph in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members. He is headed, it turns out, straight for Summerton Junction, where the whole of the U.S. law enforcement will have their last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility for one of the most daring face offs in cinema history.
THE LAST STAND, bizarre ensemble and all, will open on JANUARY 17, 2013.
Jaimie Alexander
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