If all had gone to plan, Barry Pepper would be shooting Lone Ranger right now, but as the start date of that movie got pushed back to to major behind-the-scenes wrangling over the budget, it’s allowed him to take roles in two very different sorts of film.
According to Variety, Pepper has taken a role in Broken City for director Allen Hughes. After that he will star in Ric Roman Waugh’s action drama Snitch. Rather handily both films are shooting simultaneously in New Orleans. In Broken City, the actor will play a closeted councilman. The film is a thriller about a Brooklyn detective (Mark Wahlberg) tasked with identifying a politician’s wife’s secret lover. The movie also stars Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta Jones.
Snitch, which stars Dwayne Johnson, is based on a true story and follows a father whose life is shattered when his son is sentenced to 30 years in prison on drug charges. The dad then risks his life by going undercover to try and nail a drug kingpin in order to reduce his son’s sentence. Barry Pepper will play a DEA agent who ends up helping the father.
After filming both those movies, Pepper plans to go back to Lone Ranger, so he’s going to be a busy boy.
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