Late last year, we learned that Bruce Willis had committed to the role of Adam “Kane” Marcus, a sociopathic prisoner who becomes an unlikely (and still very violent) action hero in a film based on the video game Kane And Lynch. And now we know who is playing Lynch: Jamie Foxx.
Willis’ Kane is a mercenary framed and thrown in the slammer, who gets sprung by his old muckers to complete a mission: grab a doomsday device for them, or his wife and daughter will die. Foxx, on the other hand, is a fellow prisoner, a demented sociopath with some seriously violent tendencies.
Deadline Hollywood reports that writer Kyle Ward twittered the casting news, so while there’s no official announcement just yet, you can likely expect the pair to report to the set in August.
While the premise has us intrigued (particularly the idea that our heroes are just as crazy as the villains of the piece), we’re even more enthused to see what veteran stunt expert Simon Crane will do with the set pieces as he directs his first film…