Going For A Drive

Billy Burke is set to join the 3-D action pic Drive Angry according to Variety.

The film follows a tough-as-nails man with a curious past (Nicolas Cage)--racing through the desert in pursuit of the man who killed his daughter and then kidnapped his daughter's child.

Burke plays "a charismatic cult leader whose nefarious influence leads to kidnapping and murder."

Meantime Dread Central says that horror genre favorite Tom Atkins (the 1980
version of The Fog, Halloween III, Creepshow and Night of the Creeps) has also joins the cast...

William Fichtner, Amber Heard, David Morse, and Charlotte Ross also star.

Patrick Lussier will direct this project from a script he wrote with Todd Farmer.

Atkins reunites with Farmer and Lussier who also worked on My Bloody Valentine 3D.together.

Production is set to start next month in Shreveport, La., in order to meet a February 11, 2011, release date.