I like to imagine Sam Worthington sitting in a chair in his home, going through the newspaper, when he realizes something. ‘Oi, mate!’ he cries out. ‘There are two big movies this weekend and I’m not in either one. Strewth! I’m not in any movies this summer! Fuck me, the John Madden movie I made is still TBD!’
And with that he sprang into action, starting a production company – Full Clip – and then getting a deal with Radical Publishing to create new comic books that are basically only intended to be adapted into movies. This way there will never again be a month that goes by where Worthington isn’t either starring in a movie or at least signing on to one and thus getting coverage in the trades.
The first movie out the gate will be Damages, which Heat Vision describes thusly:
“centers on two brothers committed to justice in different ways — one inside the law, one violently beyond it. Now with the end of their careers approaching, they must train their replacements, hoping to remake them in their image. But the vigilante code has changed and the brothers are left unprepared for the true lawlessness and corruption that is about to be unleashed.”
John Schwarz and Michael Schwarz created the concept and David Lapham, the writer-artist behind comics such as the acclaimed “Stray Bullets,” is writing the graphic novel.
The Schwarz boys are Worthington’s partners in Full Clip. Worthington has already been working with Radical on another comic property, The Last Days of the American Gangster.
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I think this guy has been miscast in everything…he shouldn't be playing the hero, he should be playing the villian!
You think he'd be developing himself a project where he could play something closer to himself and not have to hide his charisma underneath another bland American character.
Nah. I think that villains should be played by people who aren't deadly boring.
It's actually "Last Days Of American Crime", Devin. Have a good one.
It's not the characters that are bland, it's Worthington. He may be a leading man type when it come to his looks, but he is totally lacking in both charisma and raw acting chops.
What he should be playing is a brick layer, his former profession.
This guy is nothing more than a "badass" version of Hayden Christianson. Seriously, he's serviceable in roles but doesn't seem to have much of a personality. People shit on Tom Cruise but at least he's got something a lot of new actors are missing, a little thing called charisma.
We can only hope that for the movie the brothers are made twins so we can get two Sam Worthington roles. The best action movies always have a bland actor playing two separate characters.
David Lapham's work on "Stray Bullets" was great, but his recent work has been spotty, IMO. It also irritates me when people with no apparent interest in comics sudenly decide to create them in order to adapt them into a movie. Just cut to the chase and make the fucking movie.
And Alexander wept…
The whole "create a non-existent graphic novel to turn into a movie" thing makes me think Hollywood is getting to the point where they consider scripts too much of a pain in the ass to read unless there are pretty pictures
Yeah, he needs to play a villain. A crime boss of sorts. The hero thing's getting old.
Worthington was great in Rogue – right up to the point where he got eaten.
Ladies and gentleman I give you the new Scott Speedman. It takes talent to bring nothing to the screen that a carboard cut out of yourself can't do. Maybe he's trying to get cast in the next Indy Film.
Creating a comic first allows the creator to have some kind of ownership over a property. If you sell your idea to a studio, it's pretty much their's. If you own the original source material, you have more leveraging power and potential ancilliary profits.
The next Sam Worthington movie should have him battling an accent coach, seeing as he obviously had a real-life aversion to them.
I saw this film. It was called A BETTER TOMORROW and it was directed by some dude from HK.
Sam and I haven't spoken in years.
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