After the successful run of the first two movies of the The Hunger Games franchise, and the third installment, Mockingjay Part 1 to premiere in November, Liam Hemsworth will next play a Texas ranger who is in for a violent confrontation with a cultic preacher.

The Wrap reports that the Hemsworth, together with Hunger Games co-star Woody Harrelson are set to appear in By Way of Helena.

The revenge Western movie is going to be directed by Australian director Kiernan Darcy-Smith, whose debut film Wish You Were Here premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The drama starring Joel Edgerton and Teresa Palmer was well-received at the festival, and it paved the way for Darcy-Smith to once again make a feature film.

By Way of Helena, a 2009 Black List script by Matthew Cook. The Black List is a compilation of some of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Among the scripts that came from the Black List.

The story is described as a "violent indie," and it will be produced by Mandeville Films' David Hoberman (The Fighter, Monk) and Todd Lieberman (The Fighter, Warm Bodies).

The movie follows an 1880 Texas Ranger named David Kingston to be played by Hemsworth, and his Mexican bride, who are sent to investigate the mysterious appearance of dead Mexican bodies on a town's riverbanks. They discover a town called Helena, with a disturbing other personality. A local preacher Abraham Brant (Harrelson) lords over the town, and has everyone wrapped around his finger.

By Way of Helena is the latest evidence of the growing popularity of violent western films in Hollywood. There is Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, Jane's Got A Gun starring Natalie Portman, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's The Revenant, reportedly topbilled by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.

The movie will begin filming in the fall, right before Hemsworth and Harrelson do the promotional rounds for Mockingjay Part 1.