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Porn Valley-Cherry Road Films and Darko Entertainment have announced that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has been cast opposite Seann William Scott and Sarah Michelle Gellar in the science-fiction thriller Southland Tales.

Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) will write and direct the film with Sean McKittrick, Bo Hyde and Kendall Morgan producing.

Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Johnson will star as Boxer Santaros, an action star stricken with amnesia whose life intertwines with Krysta Now (Gellar), an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and David Clark (Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Principal photography is slated to begin on August 1 in Los Angeles.

Moby will compose the music for the film.

In addition to the feature film, an expanded version of Southland Tales will be presented as a nine-part interactive experience with the prequel saga to be published as six separate 100 page graphic novels, each written by Kelly. The graphic novels will be released over a six month period early next year leading up to the film’s release with the feature film comprised of the story’s final three chapters.