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Russell Crowe Set for ‘The Next Three Days’
Russell Crowe will next star in the Paul Haggis-directed drama, ‘The Next Three Days.’ Crowe will be playing a school teacher whose wife is arrested for a murder she claims she did not commit. The teacher devises a plan to help free her.
The film is based on the 2008 French film ‘Pour Elle,’ which starred Diane Kruger. Haggis told Daily Variety that he needed an actor in the lead spot who could embody the everyman who rises when faced with extraordinary circumstances.
We’ve seen him as the gladiator, but he has embodied the Everyman in so many pictures.
The deeper theme here is, would you save the woman you loved if you knew that by doing so, you would turn into a man that woman could no longer love?
Haggis plans to begin production in September in Pittsburgh.
Source: Variety
Russell Crowe is probably our most talented actor around today! His State of Play was hardly in the theaters when it went away but it is now on DVD and shouldn't be missed. Can't wait for Nottingham to come out and this new movie, The Next Three Days, sounds very intense. And Paul Haggis, from Crash, is very talented himself!
I am an extra in the movie and it is going to an awesome movie, you have to see it!!!
Used to love Crowe —-but this string of conventional and boring
-business as usual -safe and PC comfort-zone offerings?
Maybe artists shouldn't be rich afterall——