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Bradley Cooper Exits ‘The Crow,’ Mark Wahlberg Back in Talks, Channing Tatum?!
Not that Relativity or director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo couldn’t have surprised us with something extraordinary, but I personally was strongly against the casting of Bradley Cooper in The Crow, their reboot that would have had Cooper playing Eric Draven, a man who returns from the grave to avenge the death of both his fiance and himself.
The Hollywood Reporter breaks the news this evening that Cooper has now exited due to scheduling conflicts, but akin to the project’s rock musician who is killed and resurrected, two new names have surfaced as possible replacements: Channing Tatum (pictured inside) and Mark Wahlberg.
We broke the news exclusively back in October 2010 that Wahlberg has been offered the role, but had never officially taken it. Could that name be a longshot? The idea that Channing Tatum is even being considered makes me want to hurl all over my computer. From this side of the screen, Tatum is that obnoxious heartthrob that we all love to hate… what’s your take?
“Crow,” created by James O’Barr, centered on a musician who is murdered while trying to save his fiancée from thugs. He is brought back from the dead by supernatural forces and seeks revenge. The role was originally played by Brandon Lee, who was killed by a freak accident during production of the original movie in 1993.”
Pictured: Bradley Cooper, top, Mark Wahlberg, middle, and Channing Tatum
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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