Sly and Arnie's upcoming picture "The Tomb" gets its badguy

Ever since Jim Caviezel's* epic turn as Jesus Christ** in 2004's Passion of the Christ, I've found it very hard to buy him as a villain. After all when you play quite arguably the most well known good guy in history, it's hard to imagine that person as say Freddy Krueger.

Well in an effort to buck the stereotype and increase his range, Caviezel has just signed on to play the main antagonist in Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone's*** upcoming movie The Tomb. Caviezel, who currently stars on CBS's Person of Interest, will play the prison's warden. Mark Canton the casting director for the film revealed this information just last week on "The Matthew Aaron Show."

Despite my initial comments I think this is an inspired choice. Caviezel is a fantastic and extremely underrated actor and I think this role will be right in his wheelhouse. I only have two concerns. One is that the stars of this film are Arnie and Sly not Caviezel. However, based on past history I can guarantee with reasonable certainty that Caviezel will outshine Arnie and Sly. Reason being that Caviezel is an actor while Sly and Arnie are moviestars. I'm sure the studio will probably promote this as two action superstars however. My other concern is how Caviezel will play the role. Does he do a straight up bad guy routine ala Bob Gunton from The Shawshank Redemption or as a person doing his job? I'm almost hoping for the latter if only because we've seen too much of the former on screen.

Stallone can next be seen in next month's Bullet to the Head while Schwarzenegger has The Last Stand and The Expendables 2 coming out later this year.

*If you want to see an extremely underrated movie with Caviezel and Dennis Quaid, check out 2000's Frequency. It's very good.

**I still believe that Caviezel should have been nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Jesus. The role was not only heart wrenching but very physically demanding. Chalk it up to the release time (February 2004) and the controversy surrounding the film.

***Bit of fun information: Stallone's first name is actually Michael. Sylvester is his middle name.