Kim Jee-Woon's Last Stand casts Jamie Alexander, player of Sif in Thor, in actioner
Jaimie Alexander has been cast in the lead opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger Kim Jee-Woon's action flick Last Stand, reports Variety.
Schwarzenegger will be starring 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 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.
Alexander is in as Sarah Torrance, a cop under Schwarzenegger's command who's in a casual romance with fellow officer Frank Martinez (Rodrigo Santoro of 300) . Also in the cast of Last Stand are Zach Gilford and Peter Stormare.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura produces the film scripted originally by Andrew Knauer and rewritten by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, then George Nolfi. Production starts in New Mexico this October 20th with Lionsgate planning to debut the film January 18th, 2013.
Alexander will complete Last Stand, then move into her wor for the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth.