First up, Barry Pepper has taken on a role in New Regency’s Broken City for director Allen Hughes. He will then star in Ric Roman Waugh‘s action drama Snitch. Both films are shooting simultaneously in New Orleans.
In Broken City, the actor will play a closeted councilman opposite Russell Crowe and Mark Wahlberg in this thriller about a Brooklyn detective tasked with identifying a politician’s wife’s secret lover. Then, in Snitch, which stars Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper will play a DEA agent that helps a father free his son after being wrongfully incarcerated.
After shooting both Snitch and Broken City back-to-back, Barry Pepper will then move onto star opposite Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in Lone Ranger.
Broken City comes to theaters January 18th, 2013 and stars Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones. The film is directed by Allen Hughes.
Snitch comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon. The film is directed by Ric Roman Waugh.