“Let’s face it, the geeks have inherited the world, and if you want to be a player in this system, you have to be willing to do some of this.”
These words came from Jason Patric, who has just been announced the villain in the upcoming Losers film. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, and Zoe Saldana will also be in the film.
While the news of Patric’s casting is important, the thing that really got me was how up front he was about all this. Granted, he also says he was interested in the project, it’s true — as I wrote ages ago, comics have so much potential for marketing, all-ages likeability, and boundless creativity, who wouldn’t want to do stuff in comics?
[Via Wildstorm]
August 14th, 2009 at 10:59 am
“you have to be willing to do some of this”
It seems kind of begrudging to me. Like “I know that comic movies are the big summer blockbusters now, so I guess I have to be in one to make it in this business.”
August 14th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I’m willing to let the “some of this” comment slide. I think he might have been talking about two different things. I think “this” refers to the big budget, mass-market, Tranformers/GI Joe movie with big explosions. A lot actors feel the same way, that they have to take the paycheck for the big summer movie so they can pay the bills and do the kinds of movies they want to do.
August 14th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Wesley has it right I think; this will be about as much a “comic book” movie as was Road to Perdition. The source is a comic, but not a well-known one, and the basic genre and concept drawn from a tradition that goes beyond comics (action adventure crime). And remember that Jason Patric rarely does “blockbuster” type work. The “geek” comment comes from / at the comic book side, but Losers could easily have been an airport paperback (think Tom Clancy Jeffrey Brown) — and then would he be saying “the airplane readers have inherited the earth” ? It’s likely the fact it was a comic book is what got heat under the Losers project, but it’s hard to see that it will qualify as a “geek” movie any more than Die Hard 4 did.