To dispense with the funny-but-absurdly-obvious joke right off the bat: Maybe he’ll actually live to the end of this one!
So. Today, THR have let us know that Sean Bean, for what feels like his only onscreen role in years, will star in Scorched Earth, a post-apocalyptic thriller — the sort of subgenre which is almost naturally revealed by the title itself — for Brad Turner. The latter will be directing (what might be) his only theatrical feature since 1987′s Goofballs, working from a screenplay be Kevin Leeson and Bobby Mort wherein an environmental catastrophe leaves billions dead and Earth in ruins. Living amidst all this is Bean‘s character, “Atticus Gage, a bounty hunter, who receives the bounty of a lifetime to track the world’s most wanted criminal in these devastated badlands.”
Well, yes, I’d like to see him doing that in a film. Not the strongest or most comprehensive reaction,...
So. Today, THR have let us know that Sean Bean, for what feels like his only onscreen role in years, will star in Scorched Earth, a post-apocalyptic thriller — the sort of subgenre which is almost naturally revealed by the title itself — for Brad Turner. The latter will be directing (what might be) his only theatrical feature since 1987′s Goofballs, working from a screenplay be Kevin Leeson and Bobby Mort wherein an environmental catastrophe leaves billions dead and Earth in ruins. Living amidst all this is Bean‘s character, “Atticus Gage, a bounty hunter, who receives the bounty of a lifetime to track the world’s most wanted criminal in these devastated badlands.”
Well, yes, I’d like to see him doing that in a film. Not the strongest or most comprehensive reaction,...
- 9/8/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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