Simon Baker – who is quickly becoming a signifier of “cheese” – will be starring alongside Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Elias Koteas, Kate Hudson, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty in Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me. Could this be the most unimpressive and unimaginative casting this year? Quite possibly. Baker has starred in a slew of crappy horror films including The Ring Two, Not Forgotten and The Lodger, but also took on zombies in Romero’s Land of the Dead. The story centers on a West Texas sheriff (Affleck) and his downward spiral from a boring small-town cop into a ruthless, sociopathic murderer. Baker plays a county attorney looking to expose the sheriff as the killer. Filming begins this week in New Mexico and Oklahoma.
