A few years ago, it seemed like Kurt Russell was poised for a career resurgence thanks to a starring role in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof (AKA the second half of Grindhouse). Unfortunately, Grindhouse ended up bombing and Russell went back to doing nothing for the next five years. Recently he turned up on screen again in Touchback, the poorly-reviewed Christian football movie, but here’s some good news: he’s just signed on to star in Bone Tomahawk, a horror-western that sounds much more in line with the Kurt Russell we used to know. I mean, the movie’s called Bone Tomahawk… can you get more bad-ass than that? The movie also co-stars Richard Jenkins, Peter Sarsgaard and Jennifer Carpenter, and the plot synopsis is as follows:

“The brutally violent, character-driven Bone Tomahawk follows a sheriff (Russell), a gunslinger, a befuddled oldster (Jenkins) and a cowboy (Sarsgaard) as they attempt to rescue a group of captives (including Carpenter) from a band of cannibalistic troglodytes.”

The movie will be written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, who has no directing credits to his name but did previously write the script for The Incident, a horror thriller that takes place in an insane asylum. He also wrote several spec scripts including a Western called The Brigands of Rattleborge, which found its way onto the 2006 Black List and is now being developed by Oldboy director Park Chan-wook. Overall, it sounds quite promising and is expected to go into production next spring. Are you stoked for Bone Tomahawk?