Friday, January 13, 2012 at 11:14AM Prison Thriller ‘The Tomb’ to Add Arnold?
Summit Entertainment wants Arnold Schwarzenegger to co-star with Sylvester Stallone in their upcoming prison thriller The Tomb. Apparently the studio has been reading the huge press that these two former action-film-demi-gods have been getting with The Expendables and figures to parlay that into big profits of their own.
A few years back, The Tomb had another aging action star (Bruce Willis) and quality director (Antoine Fuqua) attached before the project went awry. Deadline reports that Mikael Hafstrom (1408) is now in talks to direct.
The plot sounds like a throwback to the 80s itself;
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
As long as audiences treat these types of movies as the “shiny object of the day”, then we’ll continue to see the studios produce these kinds of films. Once they lose interest in the genre, we’ll probably start reporting how Hollywood is turning to the reality television cash-cows to boost their profit margins. That can only mean one thing - Jersey Shore: TGL the movie. Egads!
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