News: Russell Crowe
October 27, 2006Hardman Crowe may recently have announced that he’s planning on scaling back on his action roles, but after the drubbing this week’s A Good Year has received form most critics, he must surely be wondering if light comedy is really the right alternative…
Still, for his next three films he’s back on more familiar territory. First is Tenderness, for Swimfan director Jon Polson, where the burly Aussie will play a detective trying to work out if a violent teenager murdered his family - all highly topical in these days of ASBOs and hoodies, although I somehow doubt it’ll be set on the mean streets of Slough.
Then will come the remake of the 1957 Western 3:10 to Yuma, with Crowe taking on the Glenn Ford role of an outlaw betrayed by his gang, with Christian Bale now confirmed as the rancher forced to help him out of trouble. Fleshing out the cast are the likes of Peter Fonda and Gretchen Mol and, with Walk the Line director James Mangold overseeing things from behind the camera, it should be one to look forward to when it comes out towards the end of 2007.
Finally, filming has just started in New York for Crowe and A Good Year director Ridley Scott’s next project, American Gangster. Crowe will be up against Denzel Washington in this 1970s-set crime thriller which, so far, sounds a lot more promising than their most recent film to hit the box office…
