September 7, 2006
Olyphant and Levitt Stop for Peirce

Timothy Olyphant (HBO series Deadwood) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Mysterious Skin) have joined the cast of writer-director Kimberly Peirce's Stop Loss. The Paramount Pictures film is based on a true story. Ryan Phillippe will play an Iraq veteran who returns home to Texas only to find that he is being called back again via the military's "stop loss" procedure. Olyphant will play the no-nonsense commanding officer who orders the troops back, and Gordon-Levitt will star as a soldier who struggles to readjust to civilian life and is in the middle of a floundering marriage. Peirce is most noted for Boys Don't Cry, which led to Hilary Swank's first Oscar win.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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