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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Moyer Sees Double In A BIG Way

As the cable series True Blood kicks off season 3 this Sunday June 13th...Star Stephen Moyer has landed two movie roles says the Heat Vision Blog

He is joining the casts of both The Double and The Big Valley.

Double stars Richard Gere and Topher Grace as mismatched Central Intelligence Agency and FBI guys-- one grizzled and retired the other fresh-faced and eager who must hunt down the man who killed a senator in Washington.

Moyer will play a Russian spy, though it’s not known if he’s nabbed the role of Gere’s most notorious old enemy, the prime suspect in the slaying.

Michael Brandt, who co-wrote Wanted with partner Derek Haas, is making the film his directorial debut. He’ll kick off shooting later this month in Detroit.

And then Moyer's 's off to Louisiana to shoot The Big Valley, which has been adapted from the 1965 's TV show.

The film sees Jessica Lange (replacing departed Susan Sarandon) stepping into a role that Barbara Stanwyck. played on the series: the matriarch of the Barkley ranching family living in California in the 1800s.

Moyer is set for the role of Jarrod Barkley, the family lawyer who must battle railroad companies for the rights to the family’s land.

Daniel Adams ("The Lightkeepers") wrote and will direct the adaptation.

Kate Edelman Johnson, daughter of the show's creator Louis F. Edelman, will produce.

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