Cam Gigandet, Shane West, Rachael Leigh Cook join Van Peebles thriller

Cam Gigandet, Shane West and Rachael Leigh Cook are in negotiations to star in “Kerosene Cowboys,” an action thriller that Mario Van Peebles will direct for Svarog-Afterburner Films.

Based on a novel by Randy Arrington, the tale follows the rough-riding and hard-living pilots of an elite Navy attack squadron. Gigandet will star as a hot-shot pilot, West plays his one-time best friend-turned-nemesis, while Cook will play an investigative journalist and Gigandet’s love interest.

First-time scribe Adam Prince wrote the screenplay from a story by Dave Riggs and Nickolai Susby, who are producing via Svarog-Afterburner.

- from THR