Actor Alexander Skarsgard has been roped in to play the lead role in Duncan Jones's upcoming thriller 'Mute'.
The 44-year-old film director, the son of the late music legend David Bowie, is happy to cast the 39-year-old actor as a vigilante barman in his forthcoming movie, Channel 24 reports.
In the story, which is set 40 years in the future, the 'True Blood' actor will be seen playing the role of a mute vigilante Leo Beiler, who is unable to speak due to a childhood trauma but goes in search of a missing girl in mid-21st century Berlin.
Talking about Skarsgard, Jones said he feels that the actor will do a terrific job and will justify his role.
Speaking of the development of the movie, the director said over the years he had some big, leaping ideas about what would make the film weirder and darker, and therefore they "future-fied it".
It's a thriller with a very weird tone ... The two villains of the piece are what's kept me want to do it since day one. Those characters are unique. You have not seen a pair like this," he added.
The forthcoming movie will also star actor Paul Rudd.
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