Thursday, February 25, 2010

When Angie met Alfonso: Angelina Jolie drops "Wanted 2," joins Cuaron's "Gravity"



In other news, psychics predict Wanted 2 bombing if it ever sees the light of day. I like the sound of Gravity, even if it does sound a little too much like Duncan Jones' criminally under recognized Moon. Cuaron's one hell of an interesting director, and I'm sure he'll be able to make this work.

Source: NYMag.com

Angelina Jolie Says No to Wanted 2, Killing the Sequel

Universal craved a sequel to Angelina Jolie’s assassination tango/loom tutorial Wanted. Unfortunately for the studio, Jolie is leaving them…wanting. We’ve just heard the actress has pulled out of the planned Timur Bekmambetov-directed sequel at Universal, and the studio has pulled the plug rather than recast the film. As for Jolie, we hear she is now intent on starring in Warner Bros.’ Gravity, a space thriller to be directed by Children of Men’s Alfonso Cuarón from a script he wrote with his 28-year-old son, Jonás.

Like Wanted 2, Gravity had previously been set up at Universal, with Jolie set to star. But a few weeks ago, the studio put Gravity into turnaround, possibly because it’s such an artistically challenging project: Jolie would be alone on-screen for much of the movie, playing the sole surviving human member of a space mission, desperately trying to return home to Earth and her daughter. (In that way it’s reminiscent of the brilliant, little-seen Moon with Sam Rockwell. Seriously, why won't you see it?) Now Warners has snapped it up, and it will be produced by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows producer David Heyman and Legendary Pictures

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