James Marsden draws "Straw Dog" lead

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – James Marsden will brilliant in the reimagining of the 1971 abstruseness "Straw Dogs" that is actuality accounting and directed by Rod Lurie.

The new "Straw Dogs," from Screen Gems, follows Los Angeles biographer David Sumner (Marsden), who moves with his wife to her hometown in the abysmal South. Once there, tensions body in their alliance and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, arch to a agitated confrontation.

The original, co-written and directed by Sam Peckinpah, was set in rural England and starred Dustin Hoffman as Sumner.

Both films are based on the book "The Siege of Trencher's Farm" by Gordon Williams.

The cine offers a change of clip for Marsden, added accepted for such ablaze book as "27 Dresses," "Enchanted" and "Hairspray" and comic-book movies like "Superman Returns." The amateur is filming the ensemble ball "Death at a Funeral," directed by Neil LaBute, and he abutting stars adverse Cameron Diaz in "The Box."

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)