True Detective season two is no fluke for Vince Vaughn. The comedic actor wants to stay in dramatic territory, and with only two episodes left in the HBO's latest anthology season, the actor already lined up his new serious project. He joins Andrew Garfield in the WWII drama Hacksaw Ridge.
Though opinions are mixed on the Swingers' actor performance as the morally ambiguous, shadowy crime boss Frank, Mel Gibson is apparently a fan as he cast Vaughn to play Sgt. Howell in his latest visit to the director's chair. The character is a non-commissioned Alabama officer tasked to make sure soldiers come battle-ready into war, as Deadline reports. The character is likewise torn emotionally as Frank is this season (if not more so), as he weights with the complexities of pushing these soldiers physically and emotionally while still caring for them and wanting to keep them alive.
Vaughn is the third actor to sign on to the period picture. Garfield joined the project before Gibson entered last November to play the lead Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, a real-life solider in the 307th Infantry, 77th Army Division, 1st Battalion, Company B, who went on to go to Japan to fight in the Battle of Okinawa and helped evacuated wounded and himself out of the line of fire. Sam Worthington also entered the film sometime recently in an undisclosed role.
Produced by Bill Mechanic and David Permut, co-produced by Terry Benedict and Steve Longi and written by Randall Wallace (Braveheart) and Robert Schenkkan (The Pacific), Hacksaw Ridge is scheduled to shoot in Australia in the near future. No release date is announced, but a late 2016 release for awards season is probably in the works. Should that be the case, it'll be a whole decade since Gibson's last directorial effort, Apocalypto.
Vaughn, in addition to this upcoming film and his current work on HBO, also stars in a different drama soon: the crime thriller Term Life. Keep in mind, though, it's directed by his friend Peter Billingsley (Couples Retreat and it also stars his friend Jon Favreau. Whatever stops him from making more films like Unfinished Business, though.
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