Alexander Skarsgard, currently in the HBO series, True Blood is going from viking vampires to vicious hot!.
Alex has signed for a role in “Straw Dogs,” Screen Gems’ remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 thriller. See the original synopsis here.
Rod Lurie will be directing the updated movie, in which a Hollywood screenwriter encounters hostility and bloody threats from locals in a small Southern town after he and his wife move there.
Filming for the movie starts this August, with a release scheduled in 2010. Alexander starts filming Aug. 17th. He’ll be working with a coach before that to secure his Southern accent. Woo hoo! The film is scheduled to release February 2010.
James Marsden (27 Dresses, Enchanted, X-Men) is the lead. Skarsgard will play Charlie, described as a grizzled, athletic type. We’re hoping to see a lot of Alex, no shirt, hot and sweaty 
Ah yeah!
Best known for playing Eric Northman in “True Blood,” set in Northeast Louisiana, the Swedish-born Skarsgard (son of actor Stellan Skarsgard) has had roles in the feature “Zoolander” and the HBO miniseries “Generation Kill.”
Source – http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE56F13820090716
