"Cam Gigandet (NEVER BACK DOWN), Shane West (A WALK TO REMEMBER) and Rachael Leigh Cook have joined the cast of KEROSENE COWBOYS, an action thriller directed by Mario Van Peebles. Based on a novel by Randy Arrington, the tale follows the rough-riding and hard-living pilots of an elite Navy attack squadron. Gigandet will star as a hot-shot pilot, West plays his one-time best friend-turned-nemesis, while Cook will play an investigative journalist and Gigandet's love interest."

Source: http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=23018

-TR

That's great news!

What is now considered the Official Website.

Rachael,

I am Randy Arrington, author of the "Kerosene Cowboys" series of novels. Great to hear that you are going to star as ‘Karen Marcus’ in "Kerosene Cowboys" the movie. You are a talented actress and will prove to be a fantastic Leading Lady in the film.

Randy "Teen Angel" Arrington
The Kerosene Cowboy

Hello randy.. without revealing much, how prominent is her character in your novel?

The character that Rachael will be playing ('Karen Marcus') is the incredibly beautiful, highly intelligent, "Leading Lady" in the storyline. She is torn between two handsome guys that she simply adores. Both men are dashing young Navy Fighter Pilots and best friends. But she met and fell in love with one of them before meeting the other. As is often the case in real life, adverse circumstances compel her to break up with the first man then later fall into the open and receptive arms of the second. I hope you enjoy old-fashioned romance superbly intertwined within a snarled web of fast-paced, aviation action. It’s going to be a tremendously exciting and highly entertaining roller-coaster ride of a movie.

Randy Arrington

Welcome on the Board, Randy.

That sounds very exciting! Thx for brief glimpse. I am looking forward to see this movie.

are you involved in the production of the movie too? have you been on the set maybe?

Yes I am, but we haven't stated principle photography yet. Soon! If you can, pick up a copy of the novel. You will enjoy the read.

Randy "Teen Angel" Arrington
The Kerosene Cowboy

If you can, get me a date with Rachael

I'm looking forward to the movie so much. If you believe the IMDB budget reports ($25M for this movie).. it's the largest production she has been a lead in since Josie & The Pussycats.

Hopefully a sign of things to come!

please keep us informed about the production of the movie if you can. would be really cool.
Guess you will meet Rachael anyway then?

Welcome to the board, Randy! Thank you so much for posting some info about your story. We're all looking forward to seeing the final project!

Please stick around and keep us informed.

-TR

The total budget for "Kerosene Cowboys" is much much larger than a mere $25 Million Bucks.

Randy Arrington

That's even better news. I didn't think you could get much done with airplane battle with that number. I hope the screenplay adaptation gives her a lot of screen time.

Keep us updated.

Hey, welcome to the board, Randy! And thank you again for the info.

BY MARILYN BECK and STACY JENEL SMITH
Posted: 02/26/2009 04:25:18 PM PST

[...]

THE BIG SCREEN SCENE: "I'm never doing another action movie again," claims Rachael Leigh Cook, on her final couple of days' shooting on the big screen "Kerosene Cowboys" thriller with Shane West, Troy Garity, J.C. Chasez and "Twilight's" Cam Gigadent.

We don't think the beauty of "She's All That" and "Robot Chicken" fame is entirely serious, but she complains, "I had to run on camera for the first time the other day. I was thinking 'I look really cool,' but when I saw the playback - I have a problem controlling my wrists. It's not good. I got another take."

Fortunately, she says, the guys do most of the action sequences in the movie about "out of work Navy fighter pilots who get sent on a secret mission to track down missing nuclear weapons."

[...]


( Source )

Kerosene Cowboys wraps up filming in Reno
BY VICTOR CALDERON • vcalderon@rgj.com • March 3, 2009


Filming is set to wrap up today on “Kerosene Cowboys”, a film directed by Mario Van Peebles that has been in production for the past week at the Reno-Stead Airport.

The movie is about an elite squadron of Air Force pilots who are called to sneak into the Middle East on a covert military mission. The cast and crew have spent today filming scenes in two airport hangars. Earlier filming was done in Fallon and Fernley as well as St. Petersburg, Russia.

The film's cast includes Bill Pullman (“Independence Day”), Rachael Leigh Cook (“She’s All That”) and J.C. Chasez (‘NSYNC). Hundreds of Northern Nevada residents have been hired as actors and extras as well as in casting and production roles.
The film is set for release in 2010.

According to Examiner.com, Kerosene Cowboys will be released on November 7, 2010.

I assume they're just using the IMDB date, which is not to be trusted. I emailed the production company and they have no date set.

I sure hope it's not being shelved for what would be more than a year and a half after filming ended. That surely means it's no good

Sadly, it appears the production of Kerosene Cowboys crumbled, despite plenty of filming taking place. Shane West accuses corrupt film producers (it's Russia, should we be surprised?) I was really looking forward to an action flick with Rachael.

And you have a movie coming out, 'Kerosene Cowboys'? Who's your character?
No, no, no. 'Kerosene Cowboys' will hopefully not see the light of day. It never finished shooting. Kind of a project that had so much potential that just became a disaster, because of that and corrupt producers, basically ... production company. I don't think the money was necessarily there. And it's a shame, because it looked like they were putting together a pretty good project, and there hadn't really been a 'Top Gun'-type film since 'Top Gun.' So that would have been unique. I think it would have been successful, based simply off of some of the amazing aerial stuff they got. But I can't imagine that it could come out, and if it does, then I'd be very worried, because it was not finished. So that would mean it was slapped together.

That is a shame ... you had a good cast with you, Cam Gigandet, Bill Pullman, Troy Garity, Rachael Leigh Cook ...
It did, you know, and I was into it because I got to play ... I had like a goatee and a shaved head and a different look, and I got to play basically Ice Man, you know, Val Kilmer in 'Top Gun.' Play the bad guy. And in this film, I had a lot more to do off the planes, as well, more to do off the planes than 'Top Gun' did. It had some fun scenes. I could tell you stuff, but it would give it away ... but I don't know if people will ever see it, anyway. I'll just say this much: my character doesn't survive. I end up becoming kind of the hero by saving the day and realizing that I've been not a good person for a long time. I save the day, and I take out the terrorists, and let's just say they never filmed that.

[Laughing] What's interesting is, they filmed my gravestone, with everyone, Cam and Rachael and everyone, standing around my gravestone, kind of feeling down and a couple of them crying that I'd just passed away. But they never shot me [actually] dying, so it could be interesting if they actually try and put this together and just say, 'Yup, there he is, dead. Dead on the ground.'

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/09...h-the-germs-and-his/

Oh my.

They seem to be revamping the AfterBurner Films' website. The KC official website seems to be working, no changes at all. (If you check the News section, you'll see all the mishaps they have had) And according to IMDb.com:

Status: Post-production
Status Updated: 17 May 2010

... So, who knows?