The original ‘Rhodey’ (from “Iron Man”) Terrence Howard will play the villain in director Niels Arden Oplev’s (“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) “Dead Man Down”. The film stars Colin Farrell, Dominic Cooper (“Mamma Mia”) and Oplev’s “Dragon Tattoo” star Noomi Rapace.

Variety says :

Howard plays Alphonse Hoyt, a charming but brutal crimelord who is accustomed to being feared but is thrown off guard when a mysterious tormenter (Farrell) starts sabotaging his business from within and picks off his men one by one as revenge for the death of his family.

The film will lens shortly in Philadelphia; “Fast & Furious” producer Neal Moritz is producing.