This time last year the world seemed to be Taylor Kitsch’s oyster, but then John Carter flopped, Battleship underperformed and even Savages was largely ignored. Now he’s looking towards slightly smaller movies, hoping that people will ignore the high profile failures and realise he’s actually a pretty good actor.

Bloody Disgusting reports he’s now signed up for the horror-thriller Exit 147, with Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots, Red Riding 1974) directing from a script by Pandorum’s Travis Malloy. The film is about, ‘a man driving across the desert at night who is arrested by a small town sheriff (Kitsch) and held captive as part of his own sadistic game.’

It’ll certainly be a darker role than we’re used to for Kitsch. There’s no news on when it might shoot.