Thursday
08Jan2009
Poster - Mickey Rourke in 'Killshot'
Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 7:10AM
Frankly, I'm a little damn tired of bringing up
Mickey Rourke's name. Good for him and everything, because he's a great albeit misguided talent, and I'm happy producers and directors really want to work with him again. But wow, he's been in the news a lot since The Wrestler came out. The Expendables, Iron Man 2, allegedly calling Sean Penn a homophobe - that's a full dance card for anyone.
And that doesn't even count the other movies he's made over the past year or so.
We had pictures from The Informers, which is playing Sundance this month, and now there's a poster for
Killshot, which I hope is good. I love
Elmore Leonard; he's my favorite contemporary crime novelist. I think the combo of Rourke and
Diane Lane,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Rosario Dawson, and
Thomas Jane is pretty interesting, too.
But Killshot has been delayed...oh, for a while. Try this on for size: They started shooting Killshot in October 2005. I can't think of another reason why this talent plus director
John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) would have a three-year delay other than the movie sucking in a major way, but maybe it was funded by FEMA or something and that's the explanation.
Anyway, poster time:
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Reader Comments (4)
Tomorrow Micky Rourke's manager will be announcing that he's playing Stringfellow Hawke in a big screen adaptation of Airwolf...
Maybe this is John Madden's Titanic?
I,m still waiting for Weinstein to get on the ball with SHANGHAI.
iDIOT!
"KILLSHOT" is a DIANE LANE movie. Pure and simple. She is in 95% of it and is top billed. It was shelved because of re-shoots involving cutting out Johnny Knoxvilles character. It then didn't make sense so more tweaking needed to be done. It was then delayed further due to studio politics and financial issues. Mickey Rourke is in the film and is very formidible as the hitmen Armand "Blackbird" Degas, but it is Diane Lane's movie. Lane was so frustrated by this films woes that in September last year she quit the movie business for good!