James Caviezel, Elisabeth Rohm (“Law & Order”), Harold-Perrineau (“Oz”), James Frain (“True Blood”) and fanboy favorite, bosomy model turned actress Diora Baird have joined the b-movie thriller “Transit” by After Dark films — known for their straight-to-DVD schlock and/or painful torture-porn dreck like “Captivity” and “An American Haunting,” and the memorable classic, “Skinwalkers.”
It sort of sounds like a halfway decent cast if you’re half awake while reading the report, but it’s really just a B or C-list cast in what will likely be a low-budget rental for bored B-movie enthusiasts.
Directed by Colombian helmer Antonio Negret (“Seconds Apart”), THR says the film is about thieves on the run from a bank robbery who come across a suburban family on its way to a camping trip.
The reason we even deign to bring this up again is to remind us all how far Jim Caviezel has fallen. He showed tremendous promise in his outstanding breakthrough performance; Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line” (1999) as the innocent and spiritually attuned solider, Pvt. Witt, but aside from starring in Mel Gibson’s unexpected moneymaker “Passion of the Christ,” it’s been all downhill since (apparently he tested for Bryan Singer in “Superman Returns,” but never scored the coveted gig).
We added Caviezel to our Fire Your Agent: Career Advice feature in 2008 and it appears he’s still not listening to us (most people on that list are still in dire need of career assistance; and it reminds us we need to make a part two to this feature one day). This will also get reportage because of Baird, who is a busty attractive model (when wearing make-up; no makeup glamor shots are sometimes not quite so attractive), but doesn’t have much acting chops, but she’ll appear in pretty much anything to get experience (see the straight-to-video “30 Days of Night: Dark Days”). And this Hitfix reporter once hilariously suggested her for the role of the Black Cat in the never-happened “Spider Man 4” with Sam Raimi — over real actresses like Rachel McAdams, Anne Hathaway, Romola Garai, and Julia Stiles — which gives you an indication of how people lose basic common sense around her.
