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.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety.com)