This movie looks TERRIBLE.  Hopefully I’m wrong, but I doubt it.  Movie looks stupid.

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James Marsden is signed up for a ‘reimagining’ of the controversial 1971 film Straw Dogs, it has been reported.

Sam Peckinpah’s revenge thriller gained notoriety during the 1980s when it was effectively banned due to a contentious rape scene involving actress Susan George.

The film was passed for viewing by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in 2002 when it was adjudged by clinical psychologists to be safe for home viewing.

In Rod Lurie’s planned remake, Marsden will play a Hollywood screenwriter who moves with his wife – not yet cast – to her hometown in the Deep South of the modern US.

As in Peckinpah’s original, Lurie’s version will see tensions growing between the married couple and a violent confrontation sparked by escalating tensions with the local residents.

Marsden, most recently seen in Enchanted, 27 Dresses and Hairspray, is best known as the mutant Cyclops in the trilogy of X-Men films.

He can next be seen in Neil LaBute’s comedy Death at a Funeral and alongside Cameron Diaz in thriller The Box.

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Leighton Meester, James Marsden,  Seth Green and Taylor Momsen at the premiere of “Sex Drive”.

Have you seen the trailer?  Looks hilarious!

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The Box is based on a short story called Button, Button and was a Twilight Zone episode. It is about a couple (James Marsden and Cameron Diaz) who are given a box that if you press the button inside it you will get a million dollars. The only thing is that someone you don’t know will die.

In the article the three stars were asked if they would press the button:

Frank Langella: “I wouldn’t push it for a very good reason. Because I’ve lived 40 years longer than the people who are being asked to push it, and I know what consequence means. People that age don’t always. That is one of the great lessons of the film.”

Cameron Diaz: “I know I wouldn’t do that. But how often do we push a button every day? It’s meant to be a metaphor. We do it all day long and we’re not even aware of it. There is a cause and an effect. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Honking your horn. Showing up late. The ultimate big red button is, are you aware of your actions?”

James Marsden: “No, but that’s me. We were sitting and talking in a makeup trailer, and one person said, ‘I’d probably do it.’ I said, ‘I would never do it.’ He said, ‘Yeah, but you’re you.’ A successful actor making lots of money is different from working at Boston Market. Now if it were $5 million, I might balk for a second. But I would like to think otherwise.”

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