Rodrigo Santoro, Jaimie Alexander and Peter Stormare have joined the cast of Kim Jee-Woon's "The Last Stand", the movie is which former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his big comeback to the actions movies that made him famous.
In the movie, Schwarzenegger plays Sheriff Ray Owens from Sommerton Junction, a small town near the Mexican border, that is asked by the FBI to help preventing drug dealer Gabriel Cortez Smith from crossing the border in the Gumpert Apollo, a modified racecar going 177mph. If Smith suceeds and reaches Mexico, he'll disappear before the FBI is able to locate him. Owens the one thing standing between Smith and his freedom.
Santoro is playing Deputy Frank Martinez, described as a "outgoing, laid-back, and personable man who is reliable, but likes to occasionally cut loose and party when he has the chance". He'll be joining the previously cast Zack Gilford, who is playing Martinez' best friend, the more straight-laced Deputy Jerry Bailey.
Alexander will be playing Martinez' love interest, Sarah Torrance; while Stormare is in talks to play Burrell, an ex-Marine turned mercenary who is hired by Smith to lead a team of eight men on a mission to exterminate all the cops in Sommerton Junction in order to facilitate Smith's escape. With this, only two main characters are yet to be cast: Smith himself; and FBI agent John Bannister.
The Script was written by Andrew Knauer and Jeffrey Nachmanoff, and revised by George Nolfi, and the movie is being produced by Lionsgate Films. "The Last Stand" will be released on January 18, 2013.
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