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Will Gerard Butler and Gabriele Muccino 'Slide'?
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The Scottish sensation otherwise known as Gerard Butler was able to add "successful producer" after his Evil Twins' Law Abiding Citizen enjoyed a fair amount of box office success. Not content to rest on his laurels, he's working on getting several projects off the ground and was happy to describe a few of them to Film School Rejects. While the previously announced Teacher Man and A Hanging Tale remain on his plate, Butler was eager to talk about Slide. Let's let him take it away, shall we? "There's a few different projects that we've been working on, but there's one in particular – it's a movie called Slide about a former baseball player who goes back to try and patch things up with his child and estranged wife and ends up coaching the kid's baseball team," Butler said. "He becomes the subject of fascination and [longing] by every bored housewife in the town. And it's him trying to survive that while trying to patch things up with his kid. I think we're going to have Gabriele Muccino direct the movie. Hopefully. We're in talks with him, and he's very much up for directing it so we'll what happens there."
Butler isn't saying whether he's planning to star or simply act as producer, but the Hottest Guy of the Town angle would suggest that it's being shaped for him to take the lead. Still, one can hope that he remains behind the camera, as Slide
sounds like it veers dangerously close to the rom-com territory he's already spent too much time in. While it's important to remain open-minded (this is obviously in a very early stage, and could strike out altogether), it's not exactly Shakespeare. The world needs more of that, Evil Twins.
Your Friday Fantasy -- Gerard Butler Chained Down in 'Law Abiding Citizen'
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Here's something for the girls to end their week on. Who doesn't want Gerard Butler chained up in your house -- and by the neck, no less. When I look at it, I like to imagine he's snarling "I am a slave! What possible difference can I make?" Considering the plot of Law Abiding Citizen is something akin to that of Gladiator (a vigilante who is holding all of Philadelphia hostage from his jail cell), I'm not entirely far off.
Despite my fondness for Bud White and Harry Callahan, I'm not entirely up on my prison and penal code ... do they actually chain prisoners in old timey neck manacles like that in any American cities? That seems like something you'd see in Pirates of the Caribbean, not a serious, modern legal / vigilante thriller.
Pirate chains aside, it will be enjoyable to see Butler in something manly and gruff again. The film originally called for him to be the assistant D.A. and Jamie Foxx to play the vigilante bent on avenging his family, but they reversed roles just before filming began. I think that was a good choice for both actors ... especially if they homage Escape From Alcatraz at all. And I think you know which scenes I mean, ladies.
[Thanks to the Gerard Butler Gals for sending this!]
Despite my fondness for Bud White and Harry Callahan, I'm not entirely up on my prison and penal code ... do they actually chain prisoners in old timey neck manacles like that in any American cities? That seems like something you'd see in Pirates of the Caribbean, not a serious, modern legal / vigilante thriller.
Pirate chains aside, it will be enjoyable to see Butler in something manly and gruff again. The film originally called for him to be the assistant D.A. and Jamie Foxx to play the vigilante bent on avenging his family, but they reversed roles just before filming began. I think that was a good choice for both actors ... especially if they homage Escape From Alcatraz at all. And I think you know which scenes I mean, ladies.
[Thanks to the Gerard Butler Gals for sending this!]
Frank Darabont Directing 'Law Abiding Citizen'
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According to Screen Daily, Law Abiding Citizen now has a director in Frank Darabont. Citizen is the first movie to be produced under Gerard Butler's production shingle; you can read all about Evil Twins and its upcoming slate here (I am gently encouraging you to be interested in this fledgling company).Production is set to begin on August 18th in Detroit, which I hear is becoming the new Shreveport. It's being filmed on a shoestring budget of $40 million, and the screenplay has been penned by Kurt Wimmer.
The plot has been changed quite drastically since it was first tossed around. Originally, Butler was an assistant D.A. who finds himself at the center of a traumatized victim's vigilante plot. Now, it has been revamped into the story of a criminal mastermind who controls a city from the confines of his prison cell. (Which explains why Darabont was drawn to it, and why he's a good pick. Prison dramas are a good specialty for him.) Butler is the assistant D.A. who stands in the mastermind's way.
Eager for King Arthur Revisionism? Here Comes 'Galahad'
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Revisionism and remakes, those are the buzz words these days. The Hollywood Reporter posts that the Film Department, the indie production company run by Mark Gill and Neil Sacker, won the bidding war for Galahad, a revisionist version of the classic King Arthur story. Is it really edgy to revise King Arthur anymore? We've already had the ultra-feminist version with Mists of Avalon; we recently saw the "historical" version with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley. I suppose we haven't had a version yet that changes all the names -- and here it is. Galahad portrays King Arthur as an aging, cowardly king, who is murdered by the young and ambitious Queen Guinevere. She blames the crime on Sir Galahad, who must escape this death sentence, vanquish the forces of evil, and return Camelot to its former glory.
Call me crazy, but I would just like an ordinary version -- with Merlin, Morgan LeFay, the forbidden passion of Lancelot and Guinevere, and Arthur as the Once and Future King. Is Excalibur (which I always found too nightmarish, but I do respect it as a solid attempt) the only one we're ever going to get? It can't all end with Clive Owen, can it?
The Film Department is confident that the actor's strike won't harm their fledgling production, as the SAG will grant companies like them a waiver. Interestingly, the company is also set to begin shooting Gerard Butler's Law Abiding Citizen with the actor's new Evil Twins shingle. Galahad + Gerard Butler makes me wonder if he'll wind up producing and playing that pure and chivalrous knight. He's fond of the sword genre, especially if it has a revisionist edge. I wouldn't be surprised -- and you will have heard it here first.
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