Before you write this film off based on your take on the work of James Patterson or the mediocre Morgan Freeman incarnations, take heed as this project lives pretty close to my heart:
- CHUD favorite David Twohy [if you don’t appreciate last year’s A Perfect Getaway I don’t know to say] is directing it.
- CHUD favorite (and a gentleman I have a few projects with) Lloyd Levin is producing, and it’s a project he’s spent a lot of time making happen and the guy’s taste is second to none.
- CHUD favorite Idris Elba is the leading man in one of those very rare franchises built around a black guy, joining um… if Will Smith wants to make more than one film about a guy…
- Belle Avery is a producer, and she’s the person who gave me my first film job.
- Alex Cross is actually still quite a ripe character for film, despite the best efforts of Cary Elwes and Monica Potter.
Deadline broke the story about the film, one which will shoot in a great city in the early parts of next year. More as it comes.
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I love David Twohy. He is one of three directors on earth who I'll automatically see anything from. So yeah, I'm there.
A Perfect Getaway?? Seriously thats the fucking movie you will pimp Twohy with? Jesus Nick could you be any further out of touch with your readers??
Let me address your points one by one:
Point fully agreed with. David Twohy is great, and I still wish they had used his Alien 3 script (or William Gibson's or just SOMEBODY ELSE'S). And APG is a fun little murderer film. Good to watch.
Not so sure about Lloyd Levin. I submit to you his Tomb Raider films. Not exactly quality films, eh?
Elba's a great actor but I don't know why he's dining on Morgan Freeman leftovers. Even though Along Came A Spider wasn't the best film, they've let the property sit dead since that film, which opened in 2001. It's like they just waited for Morgan Freeman to get even older just to be able to recast, which is rude.
Not sure about Ms. Avery as I don't know her work too well. But as you once worked for her, I understand you're kind of biased in this article.
I agree with the dig on Monica Potter, but Cary Elwes' work in Kiss The Girls is among his best. He can play a villain right up there with the best of Rickman, Malkovich, and Ed Harris.
Best of all, they'll never run out of material since Patterson will crap out ten books about the character in the time it takes to produce one movie.
"Lloyd Levin is producing… and the guy's taste is second to none."
The Tomb Raider movies notwithstanding, you mean? I kid. I kid.
I wasn't going to get excited about this film, but now that I know you have a working relationship with the producers… I kid again.
To nakedly borrow from the internet; "Idris Elba. His Power is Maximum."
Is Lloyd Levin as amazing as Jan De Bont? If so count me in!
so much self indulgence..
I want to ignore them too Nick, but there are two Men in black sequels.
Dude, I have friends in the industry too. Doesn't mean they don't have to churn out mediocre work for their bread and butter. Knowing somebody doesn't make them an instant genius or raise journeyman work. Stop being a creepy neophyte and come back to reality a little before you sprout a red neck-beard and take to riding around in a greasy wheelchair. And oh yeah, a movie. Why isn't this a TV series?
As far as film franchises built around black guys, you're forgetting Wesley Snipes as BLADE.
I hope someone asks Alex Cross where the fuck Wallace at.
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