“Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp broke up”: this film legend will no longer make 16 films

End of career for Peter Weir! The 79-year-old Australian director, nominated for the Oscar 6 times, confirmed that he will not continue the film.

“Why did I stop acting? Because I just didn’t have more energy“, he reported telerama, Regarding the film director’s visit to France, Spotlight on the Cinémathèque française.

Peter Weir has not toured since 2010 and released Chemins de la liberté in January 2011 in France. We owe him some of the great successes of Hollywood cinema, such as The Truman Show with Jim Carrey, or Dead Poets’ Circle (see our video interview excerpt).

In 2022, Ethan Hawke speculated to retire from acting. In his documentary The Last Movie Stars, which aired on HBO, Ethan Hawke explained this with a difficult past experience with Russell Crowe in Master & Commander and an aborted project with Johnny Depp.

“I think he has lost interest in making films“

“I think he’s lost interest in making movies.” Ethan Hawke commented at the time. “He loved this work so much when the actors weren’t struggling. Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp broke it. He’s such a rarity these days, a popular artist.

He makes mainstream films which are artistic. To have a budget to do Romanian show Or master and commander, you need a Jim Carrey Or Russell Crowe. I think that Harrison Ford and Gerard Depardieu There were actors of his type. They supported the directors and did not consider themselves “important”.

Released to polite and utter indifference in France on December 31, 2003, and failing miserably at the worldwide box office with $211 million on a barely $150 million budget, Master & Commander . deserves a serious reassessment. A very painful defeat for Peter Weir who will need a few years to recover.

Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp “broke”

When it comes to mentioning the collaboration between Johnny Depp and Peter Weir, Ethan Hawke is quite shy. The two were to work together in the 2004 film Shantaram. Depp played a young Australian prison escapee who rebuilds a new life in the slums of India before heading to Afghanistan to fight the Russians.

Weir eventually left the project, officially due to “differences in artistic views”. The project eventually became a TV series directed by Charlie Hunnam and was released on AppleTV+ in 2022.

“My successes were accidents” said the six-time Oscar-nominated film director. “I am completely incapable of abandoning box office projects, infantilizing scenarios, stories about costumed vigilantes.

at the time of their release, Mosquito beach or the second state It was just another movie. Today Hollywood classifies them as ‘adult dramas’ and it almost makes me ashamed to have made porn.”