Deadline Hollywood reports that Salma Hayek has had to drop out of CBS Films’ Faster due to a schedule conflict. The site says that Hayek exited the film a week before shooting begins on February 8th. The filmmakers will move fast to recast the role.
Scheduled for a release on November 19, the George Tillman Jr.-directed action drama stars Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Maggie Grace, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Moon Bloodgood
Johnson will play an ex-con bent on avenging the death of his brother, murdered 10 years earlier when the two were double-crossed during a heist.