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"The Mummy...was very bad."
http://www.slashfilm.com/space-jam-2-justin-lin-lebron-james/
Hopefully it gets ejected from that pipeline, immediately into a brick wall as fast as humanly possible. One movie with Renner as Aaron Cross is more than enough.
And Terrence Malick's Voyage Of Time is finally coming out later this year. (No news on the release of Weightless, yet.)
https://thefilmstage.com/news/terrence-malicks-voyage-of-time-set-for-imax-release-this-october/
We've had 2 conversations on these forums lately: One about having Cruise working with a serious director again, and the other about actors making a comeback in recent years (Damon, Affleck, Hanks).
Which got me thinking: which popular actor is fading away in direct to DVD nonsense lately? Answer: Bruce friggin Willis. The guy is an absolute legend and I refuse to believe that his career is over. He's 61 years old, so he's not that young but not that old either.
Which brings me to the same director as our discussion with Cruise: Denis Villeneuve. Once he's done with 'Blade Runner 2 and his 'Sicario' sequel, he should so crime/revenge film with dear Bruce. Maybe have Bruce as an ex body-guard or something out on revenge for the death of his old friend (like Michael Caine in 'Harry Brown' mixed with Denzel Washington in 'Man on Fire').
But is should be a brutal film. Not a high body count like Taken, but each kill by Willis' character should be absolutely mind-blowingly violent. And I don't mean CGI blood or anything, but just get the guys working on Bourne or John Wick, and give us something awesome and badass. Even have a torture sequence like when Neeson electrocutes the guy in 'Taken', and give Willis a total unhinge performance as someone on path for absolute, no-nonsense, brutal revenge. I want to see Willis as the ultimate revenge machine, calculating, methodic, and who dispatches the enemy force with violence like we've rarely seen before.
The film should be set somewhere cool - South America? Asia? Africa? Take your pick. And no happy ending either - I'd like the film to end like my dream version of 'LTK' - Willis in the middle of nowhere, with blood and dirt everywhere, looking at the horizon with the dead bodies of the final bad guys behind him. I'm sure Villeneuve can make some powerful ending like that.
C'mon, let's give Willis the come back of the century. I am absolutely sure he can deliver a performance for the ages with a talented director that believes in him.
That's great @Creasy47
That's a shame @Creasy47
I realized when I saw the exchange between him, Arnie and Sly in the church in Expendables 2 that he's still got it in spades when he needs to turn it on.
I'm totally for a 'revenge flick'. Loved 'The Jackal' and think he'd be great doing anything. I agree with @Creasy47 too though that he's been slumming it lately. It's really up to him whether he chooses to step up and make it count again.
PS: I saw him live on Broadway in Misery in Jan. Made the trek primarily for him. Laurie Metcalf (his co-star) acted her pants off, but he stole the show on pure charisma alone. He got a massive standing ovation at the end.