El Mayimbe of Latino Review says directors bail in 3s…so while we wait for that elusive third helmer to bail on something big, you can read this one!
According to Variety, David O. Russell has left Drake’s Fortune over “creative differences.” There are no further details at this time, so we don’t know if the tenative and unpopular cast — led by Mark Wahlberg — leaves with him.
Russell was an incredibly contentious choice for director. Fans of the Uncharted series have been screaming about him for months, while fans of The Fighter pointed it was David O. goddamn Russell, and he deserved the benefit of the doubt. Even if that meant Mark Wahlberg, and a strange father/son/uncle dynamic with Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci.
It never did seem to fit right, though, even if you’re a big fan of Russell and wanted to see him tackle something geeky and genre oriented. This feels like the inevitable outcome.
Maybe Nathan Fillion will get to read for the part this time.
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“Thank God” doesn’t even begin to express my thoughts right now.
I don’t think David Russel had anything to do with the lack of Nathan Fillion. Fillion is a TV actor, not a movie star. The studios aren’t going to pick an unknown to headline an expensive summer blockbuster.
They come in threes, huh? Well… Then Zack Snyder will drop out of Superman. You know it to be true.
Eh, so Thor’s being played by a movie star?
Or Superman?
Slither was the shti.
One can hope.
Honestly, Marky Mark was the only turn-off there. He’s great in some stuff – this was not one of those stuff.
Someone mentioned a Whedon/Fillion pair up for this. I could get behind that. Although, I bet it would be a while before Whedon could start and Fillion isn’t getting any younger.
*crosses fingers in hopes of Brett Ratner or Len Wiseman taking over*
I don’t care how good a director Russell is; if he wants to make a movie about a “Drake” family that’s essentially the mafia of the art and antiquities world, policing the theft and trade of artifacts worldwide – as he expressed was his intent – he should probably do it without calling it “UNCHARTED.”
See, if you’re going to make a movie based on something, you should probably… base it on that thing, at least a little bit, you know? Not just use the character names and then make them all dancing frogs or whatever.
Luckily, because his concept bears so little connection to the supposed “source material,” he can probably still go and make the exact same movie elsewhere by simply changing the title and the family’s name.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Russell does go off and makes his own film but hires Nathan Fillion?
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