Ever since seeing him in Catch and Release with Jennifer Garner, we're been following his career. Now there is news about an upcoming film featuring the actor alongside another tMF favorite, Joe Anderson.

Ernio Hernandez reports: Timothy Olyphant and Joe Anderson have been cast in the upcoming screen version of Lee MacDougall's play High Life, according to Variety.

Gary Yates (Seven Times Lucky) will direct the adaptation he co-wrote with MacDougall. The trade publication notes that production has already begun on the film from Triptych Media, Shoreline Entertainment and Buffalo Gal Pictures. Based on the original stage play, High Life centers on a bank heist enacted by four junkies.

Olyphant (Deadwood, Hitman, Go), who has appeared on stage in The Santaland Diaries and The Monogamist, will head the cast opposite Anderson (Across the Universe), Stephen Eric McIntyre (The Lookout) and Rossif Sutherland (Poor Boy's Game).

MacDougall's High Life earned the first-time scribe an Outstanding New Play honor at the 1996 Dora Mavor Moore Awards. The work made its American premiere at Primary Stages in 1999.

Olyphant was recently featured in an interview with the NY Post and he was quite frank about his roles and how he is perceived by fans and moviegoers...

When you're offered a film based on a video game, what goes through your mind?

Well, my expectations weren't high. I assumed it wasn't going to be something I was interested in. On the other hand, if you put aside that element and look at the fact that a major motion picture studio has offered you the lead part in a $30 million action movie, that has tremendous appeal.

Is that why you took it?

It was a huge opportunity, without question. I'm very flattered that they considered me for the part, especially considering that I hadn't done something like that before. Hollywood in general tends to offer you things you've done before. And the script didn't read like a video game. This movie felt like a classic hit-man genre film, whether it was a John Woo film or a Luc Besson film.

You've played such varied roles, What do fans on the street most want to talk about?

It's all over the map. But first of all, I don't get recognized that much. That's the best part of it. I tend to get things like, "You sound a lot like that guy on 'Deadwood.'" And that's lovely. I've been very fortunate. No giggling, screaming girls. None of that.

[ More of the interview ]

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