Yep, another actor deciding to take up the mantle of
director… and he’s Australian to boot. I can only hope that this fares better
than last time this happened. Well, okay, this doesn’t have nearly as
bad a lead-up as The Water Diviner. For starters, our aspiring director Joel
Edgerton is also penning the script for this film and, judging by his role from
the trailer, this should be less ‘vanity project’ and more ‘passion project’; something a bit more heart put into it.
It also helps that he isn’t being funded by a television station; instead, he’s
being backed by Jason Blum, the most prominent hack producer working today. Not entirely sure how one becomes a producer-for-hire, but given how
he’s been attached to at least 11 films this year alone, something tells me
that his attachment here is nothing too special. So, do we get another Crowe or
is this actually good?
