Earlier in the year we reported THN favourite Timothy Olyphant was set will for modern-day ultra-violent western titled THE MAN ON CARRION ROAD. It was a project coming from a screenplay by Nils Lyew and was set to be directed by APOLLO 18 director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego with a plot centring on a botched Mexican cartel deal on the grimy streets of a US border town. Sadly. Olyphant has had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts on his superb series Justified but will be replaced by the equally underrated Patrick Wilson.
Wilson, last seen in this summers creepy couple THE CONJURING and INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2, will star as a newly-appointed Sheriff forced to team up with the man he took over from to finally rid the small town of the drug-dealing kingpin and his henchmen.
Shooting, which was originally slated for August this year, will finally get underway in March 2014. Wilson himself will next be seen leading Joe Carnahan’s action-comedy STRETCH.
Source: Empire
