Morgan Freeman Goes Top Secret For 'Red'
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You know, I think Morgan Freeman likes playing in the comic book world. After turns in Wanted, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight, Freeman is currently in talks to join another DC production. According to Variety, he's in talks to costar with Bruce Willis in Red, an adaptation of Warren Ellis' 3-book series. Ellis' series centers on a former black-ops CIA agent named Moses. He's retired and enjoying the quiet life, and the CIA is happy to let him do so, until a new director is hired, and decides to pull up his file. When the director finds out what Moses actually did, he decides that he's a liability, and sends a high tech assassin to kill him. When the book was optioned last year, it was reported they'd added a love interest, and that Moses would be getting the old team back together. There would also be a generational divide as Moses contends with younger agents who rely on new and improved gadgets. Variety doesn't say whether all those new twists and turns have been kept, but I suspect they have, as three issues aren't quite enough to make a movie out of.
Red is one of the only DC Comics to jump the Warner Bros. ship, and is being produced at Summit Entertainment. Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber are penning the script, and the movie doesn't yet have a director. Maybe Freeman can lure in his Invictus boss, and break him into the comic book world?
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7-21-2009 @ 4:11PM
John Muth said...
"three issues aren't quite enough to make a movie out of."
Hate to disagree with you, but three issues can be plenty to make a movie out of. They've done it with less. Newspaper/magazine articles, theme-park rides and even toys, and the one story that I'd push as the model for a future Superman movie, is based solely on one issue. (Keeping it to myself, in case the chance ever arises for me to use it! :P)
But, the adding of a love interest and "team" sounds like they're just trying to make the movie more accessible and fit into the "hollywood formula". Here's hoping that maybe they want to follow the "Taken" formula, and just have an action, chase movie.
And is it just me, or would the movie be much more interesting with Freeman in the lead role and Willis as the guy trying to take him out?
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7-22-2009 @ 6:11AM
danmac said...
i hear ya
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