Coming from a story by “The Hollywood Reporter,” John Malkovich, Diane Lane, Scott Glen and Dylan Walsh will join forces to star in an upcoming project called Secretariat, which will focus on the true story of the racehorse of the same name, who won the Triple Crown in 1973.

Filming will begin this week in Louisiana and Kentucky and is slated for release in 2010. It will be directed by Randall Wallace (We Were Soldiers, Man in the Iron Mask) and written by Mike Rich (The Nativity Story, Radio).

The project will have Lane in the lead role  of “the horse’s owner Penny Tweedy, the housewife who broke though a gender barrier to usher Secretariat to greatness.”  Malkovich “plays a charismatic trainer who underestimates the power of Secretariat; Glenn is a southern-bred aristocrat who loses the horse in a coin toss…Walsh plays Lane’s husband, a successful attorney who is accustomed to his wife being at his beck and call.”

I think Malkovich is a great actor and I loved his work in Empire of the Sun.  Of course he was especially good in Being John Malkovich and The Changeling.  Scott Glenn is a solid supporting actor and he was great in Training Day and Silence of the Lambs.  Dylan Walsh has certainly made a name for himself with TV’s “Nip/Tuck,” but I’m not too familiar with his work outside of that and have really only seen him in bit roles like We Were Soldiers and The Lake House. With a talented actor like Malkovich joining a great cast like Lane, Glenn and Walsh, this certainly has the making for another great horse racing movie, a la Seabiscuit.