Three pairs of films this week, and if you're not a major franchise, a criminal or a spy then you may as well just go home.
The Next Three Days
It's barely been a few weeks since the Pour Elle was in cinemas yet this hasn't stopped the Hollywood machine comiisioning a remake of the French Prison Escape drama, and casting Russell Crowe as the films protagonist. I'm a Crowe fan, so I can't wait to see what he does with this - although imagining that he doesn't already know how to break someone out of prison might be a stretch.
Alien Prequel
The idea of a prequel to Alien, possibly explaining how the Space Jockey crashed on the obscure planet or possibly just explaining why the Company were interested in the Alien has been around for a long time, but the brave step of hiring writer Jon Spaihts to complete a screenplay shows Fox are really pushing nthis one through. Frankly as long as it doesn't have any Predators showing up I'm there.
Matt Helm
Get Smart took $130m in the States last year, which goes to prove that comedy spies are as popular as ever. With that in mind Dreamworks have dusted down the rights for Matt Helm, previously a Dean Martin vehicle from the 60's, with just a few tweaks to up the action sequences, and just the right touch of tongue in cheekness it could be a perfect anti-Bond franchise.
Parsifal Mosaic
Talking of Anti-Bond, Robert (Bourne writer) Ludlum's back catalogue continues to be plunged with the daft sound Mosaic next in line. Involves dead lovers appearing in train stations and the secret services turning on their own to protect the nation. Sounds daft but with a reasonable cast and crew it might just be watchable.
Pirates of the Caribbean 4
Will we all go to see another 2 and a half hours of Johnny Depp in excessive make-up crowding around a couple of up and coming actors and generally steal every scene from under their noses? Of course we will! But when will Depp squeeze in a bit of Keith Richards impersonating is the more important question.
The Town
In easily the most bizarrely love triangle you'll have heard of the bank robber and cop closing in on him both fall for the same teller. All eyes will be on Rebecca Hall juggling the guys in Ben Affleck's next directorial venture.
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2 comments:
Russell Crowe needs to fire somebody. There was the 99-00-01 run. then Master & Commander. then Cinderella Man. then? nothin'. ok, Robin Hood, but we'll see about that
That's a bit harsh.
Sure he's not had a huge hit in a while, but he continues to put out some good work - State of Play showcased the slubby Crowe and in 3:10 to Yuma you couldn't take your eyes off him.
Also you could look at his back-catalogue and it's very clear that he likes to mix it up, different genres, different types of role (ignoring the one Scott film, one by someone else habit). Are there any such high profile actors who are willing to do that?
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