Monday afternoon quickie: Woody Harrelson’s next big movie to be “Ruble Train”

News has come from The Hollywood Reporter that career koo-koo Woody Harrelson will be toplining Trans-Siberian, a contemporary crime thriller that takes place aboard the famous Trans-Siberian train from Vladivostok to Moscow. The project, cowritten and to be directed by Brad Anderson, will also feature Samantha Morton, Kate Mara, “Spanish heartthrob” Eduardo Noriega and Should-Be-Ashamed-Of-Himself Oscar Winner Ben Kingsley.

Any interest there…? Show of hands, anyone? Okay. How about a plot synopsis?

The story focuses on an American couple that travels on the famous Trans-Siberian train from Vladivostok to Moscow and encounters another couple. What seems to be a simple train journey soon turns into a thrilling chase full of deception and murder as it becomes clear that not everybody is who they seem.

Yeah, not much help there.

But maybe I’m being too cynical. Certainly we should reserve judgment when the Hollywood marketing machine trots out the seldom-used “not everybody is who they seem” tagline. Sure hope they save that gem for the one-sheet.