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25 February 2012 9:15 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

This week:

John Badham romances the stone with In The Rough; Sylvester Stallone’s latest film takes a Bullet to the Head on its release date; Dominic Cooper and Karoline Herfurth share some Passion with Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace; Paul Walker gets fast and furious in Skyscraper and McG dies hard in the Puzzle Palace.

1. Saturday Night Fever helmer John Badham hasn’t directed a film since 1997’s Incognito – as he’s been toiling away in episodic television, but it looks like he might be coming back to the big screen with In The Rough.

According to Movie Hole, the Leslie Boehm scripted film will be in the vein of Romancing the Stone:

“The Adventure-pic would team a retired hunter, female Red Cross employee, and a go-getting Jack Colton-esque CIA agent as they hunt for priceless jewels in ...

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- Niall Browne

24 February 2012 2:44 PM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »

Veteran filmmaker John Badham is ready to get back on the feature saddle again. He’s in talks to take on In The Rough, written by Leslie Boehm (the man who’s given us Dante’s Peak, Daylight and The Darkest Hour). Rough is an action-adventure concerning a retired hunter, a female Red Cross employee and a CIA agent searching for priceless jewels in the Indian jungles. Adventure ensues [Moviehole].

Badham began his career in the early 70s directing television, both episodes and movies, until 1977, when he broke out as a film director with Saturday Night Fever. Since then he’s helmed a vast variety of entertainment, at least one of which you probably love. His films range from Short Circuit to WarGames to Stakeout to the Point Break-wannabee Drop Zone (which is a personal guilty pleasure).

In the mid-90s he gave us Nick of Time, a mildly interesting Johnny Depp »

- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)

2 items from 2012