Olyphant Will Carry A "Bone Tomahawk"

Timothy Olyphant has joined the horror-western "Bone Tomahawk" says Deadline.

The story follows a sheriff (Kurt Russell), a gunslinger, a befuddled oldster (Richard Jenkins) and a cowboy (Peter Sarsgaard) as they attempt to rescue a group of captives (including Jennifer Carpenter) from a band of cannibalistic troglodytes.

Olyphant plays an eloquent sharpshooter who moved to the frontier in order to satisfy the dark impulses that lie beneath his polished exterior.

 S. Craig Zahler's calling action here from his own screenplay.

Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller are producing the film when shooting kicks off in the Spring in New Mexico.