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Additional reporting by Brandy Schaefer

This past summer, we watched Timothy Olyphant "Die Hard" alongside Bruce Willis; these days, the blockbuster baddie is working on bringing himself back to "Life."

"[It's about] four morphine addicts in 1983 who try to rob a bank," Olyphant said of "High Life," a black comedy he recently began filming. Based on a production of the same name by award-winning playwright Lee MacDougall, Olyphant's character Dick is an ex-con planning one last heist. Soon enough, he encounters catastrophically funny imperfections in his fool-proof plan, thanks to his incompetent partners played by Joe Anderson ("Across the Universe"), Stephen Eric McIntyre ("The Lookout"), and Rossif Sutherland ("Timeline").

Olyphant was quick to point out, however, that Canadian filmmaker Gary Yates has definitely not been making the "High Life" an easy life for his actors when it comes to the dialogue-heavy scenes. "We're only a couple days in, but last night we shot five pages of dialogue," the "Hitman" star marveled. "It was kind of great; I don't remember doing that in a while." Read more...