Olyphant and Gordon-Levitt Drafted for Stop Loss

Romeo has already mentioned that Boys Don't Cry director Kimberly Peirce will make her long-awaited sophomore feature with Stop Loss, about Iraq war veterans sent back into combat, but now several exciting young actors have joined the cast.

Two veterans of queer cinema - The Broken Hearts Club's Timothy Olyphant and Mysterious Skin's Joseph Gordon-Levitt - will shave their heads and don uniforms for the roles.

Olyphant plays a commanding officer who orders his troops' re-enlistment, while Gordon-Levitt makes a turn as a grunt who returns home to a foundering marriage and has a hard time readjusting to civilian life.

The timely drama - which also features hunks Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Jay Hernandez, and Anthony Mackie - is expected to be major Oscar-bait for 2007.