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No one puts Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the corner. Gone are the days of side gigs, back-to-back crap romcoms, and barely there cameos in Woodstock flicks. After finding fame with Denny Duquette and Edward Blake, Morgan has a slew of starring projects on the way – including The Losers, Shanghai, and Red Dawn – and now there’s another to add to the pile. The Hollywood Reporter](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i57188fa02bde4bbc0a0ed9419151b590?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Ffilm+(The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Film)&utm_content=Google+Reader) posts that Morgan will star in Michael Bassett’s (Solomon Kane) new psychological thriller The Unblinking Eye.
The film will focus on John Callisto (Morgan), a retired recluse who gave up his life as a homicide detective after he almost became the victim of a serial killer. He enjoys his seclusion until a nosy bugger of a journalist tracks him down. “As the two confront each other, dark secrets from both their pasts come to light.”
Is it too much to think of this as a more real-world view of The Comedian, had he not be slain? This character probably didn’t go around sadistically killing people himself, and there’s not a costumed warrior in sight, but the idea of the gruff and tough man dealing with his past – the ravaged survivor – fits the bill, and it’ll be nice to see Morgan settle into that mindset for more than just a geek movie intro.
The film will go on sale at Berlin this year, and is set to shoot this May.