Disney Dismisses Bruckheimer's 'Killing Rommel'

While it's not exactly a reason to sound the fire alarm, Jerry Bruckheimer's adaptation of Killing Rommel has been officially dumped by Disney, according to Beyond Hollywood. The one reason you might think Disney is reticent is the $200 million it spent on making Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, pushing it back a year, and then watching it completely stiff in the US. Internationally, it's fared better, but it is probably the big bomb of the summer season so far. That or Robin Hood, depending on marketing expenses and distribution costs. But apparently, that has nothing to do with it. Bruck has made films at Disney for ages and not all of them have been massive. Plus, he's still got The Sorcerer's Apprentice this summer (and I don't see the studio shrinking its efforts on that one) and next year's Pirates appendage, so it's not a case of Disney, in effect, canceling Bruckheimer's carte blanche. Rich Ross, the new head at Disney, has made it clear he wants two types of movies: Big-ass merchandising opportunities and small family to teen films. Oh, and Pixar. But this more serious, medium budget fare is right out for the time being. From where the studio and more importantly the corporation was at the beginning of 2008, such a move makes very good business sense. At the end of the day, even the Imagineers kowtow to shareholders. So, Killing Rommel, which is about what it sounds like it would be about, won't be happening. Bruckheimer has spent a couple years working on the adaptation of Steven Pressfield's novel concerning the great German military tactitian, Erwin Rommel, kind of an ill-fitting piece in Hitler's Nazi regime. He was a German nationalist, but not, strictly speaking, a goosestepper for der Fuhrer. The Desert Fox was also the best military mind of the 20th century, as well as a humane man of war, if such a thing is possible, refusing to kill Jewish captives. He was also part of the plot to assassinate Hitler. Those events were portrayed in Valkyrie, though Rommel's story, wisely, was not thrown into the mix, as well. He was killed for his actions, however, or more specifically, allowed to kill himself. The book on which the movie was to be based (and possibly still will be at another movie house) has nothing to do with that, however. It's about British soldiers battling Rommel's forces in North Africa.

Comments

[chad]

wow this seems like the perfect movie for disney and bruckheimer they can have unlimited white people in the movie, whats their problem?

[Get The Big Picture]

Disney doesn't want anything close to this. Can't sell four tickets at a time and no action figures.

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