The premise of This Means War is stupidly irresistable. Chris Pine and Tom Hardy play secret agents. Both end up dating Reese Witherspoon. She seems to be a normal girl, but their interest gets so heightened that they use their spy tools on each other. Director McG may have a real winner on his hands. Check out the trailer…
Angela Bassett’s career is undergoing a serious revamp and we love it! The Oscar nominated actress has landed several huge projects in the past few years including her upcoming role in Warner Bros’ comic tentpole The Green Lantern. Now according to a report from Variety, she’s taken on another macho yet romantic film: McG‘s This Means War.
Chelsea Handler is the host of a nightly talk show entitled “Chelsea Lately,”who also emceed this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Now she’s hopping on to the big screen for McG‘s latest film, This Means War. The comedian will join headliner Reese Witherspoon alongside Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, for an action comedy with a romantic twist.
Here in the States people are still reeling over the casting of Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in the American adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But what about the young actress who started it all? Noomi Rapace, who plays the character in the Swedish-language film has been receiving a lot of positive buzz for her performance, enough so that a possible Oscar nomination might be in her future. Not only that but her new international acclaim could land her a role in several blockbusters like Sherlock Holmes 2 and Mission Impossible 4.
Someone must have finally told Sam Worthington that there are only 24 hours in a day, and 7 days in a week because he’s been signing on for movies left and right. When did he think he was going to film them exactly? All of those deals must have caught up with him because the actor who was loosely attached to star in the McG directed romantic comedy This Means War has been replaced…by Tom Hardy.
Sam Worthington has been dominating the action market because after 10 years as a serious indie star in his native Australia, he wanted a piece of the Hollywood pie. We’ve seen him as a cyborg, a blue humanoid, and a demi-god, but can you imagine him as a comedic character? According to Vulture, Worthington might reunite with his Terminator Salvation director McG in the romantic comedy, This Means War.
Bradley Cooper was all set to star in the McG directed romantic comedy This Means War, but something more important came along and he had to drop out. According to EW, the “it” actor of the moment has opted to work on the sequel to The Hangover instead.
McG is stepping away from the heavy action driven world of film to tackle a romantic comedy. According to THR, the director will helm This Means War, a rom-com that already has Bradley Cooper and Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon attached to star. This will be the director’s first venture into the genre, do you think he can handle it?
