Josh Hartnett and Margarita Levieva join 'Inherit the Viper'

Actors Josh Hartnett and Margarita Levieva are set to star in Barry Films' crime thriller "Inherit the Viper".

The film explores the prescription drug epidemic in West Virginia, reported Variety.

Anthony Jerjen is directing the project from Andrew Crabtree's original script.

Hartnett and Levieva will portray siblings as they try to escape the spiral of violence that has held them captive since their father's passing.

Their characters deal with a region left behind by the economy, in which selling drugs has become their way of survival and a business that's very hard to quit.