Ten years ago, Glenn Powell was one of the young Expendables ready to succeed the elderly in the third episode of the Sylvester Stallone saga. The public and critical failure of the film decided otherwise, but it does not matter: the actor clearly did not give up the desire to measure himself against the elders.
After flying brilliantly alongside Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick in a role reminiscent of Val Kilmer in the first opus, he’s now chasing tornadoes in Twisters in a style Bill Paxton wouldn’t deny.
And he’s preparing to follow in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s footsteps with Edgar Wright’s Running Man remake, which is set to shoot this fall.
An actor on fire who could literally prove it in the years to come: Producer Brian Grazer announced that a new version of Backdraft, the action drama about Chicago firefighters, He was going to see the light of day. And that he wanted Glenn Powell to play the lead role. Which would make him Kurt Russell’s successor.
But it is still far from being implemented. Because the film is in development and the actor was recently approached, even though he’s never mentioned Backdraft Twisters in any of the interviews that have been published (or even on our mic) so far. And a scheduling conflict could set in motion that has all of Hollywood scrambling.
Released in theaters on October 2, 1991, Ron Howard’s original Backdraft attracted 1,201,511 viewers in French theaters and grossed over $152 million worldwide.
In addition to Kurt Russell, the cast of the feature film included William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Scott Glenn, Donald Sutherland and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Where a fireman, wounded by his father’s death, must face a serial arsonist whose signature is the so-called fiery fire. “backdrafts”Destructive fires that extinguish themselves.
A film that we can imagine in an updated version, especially since Brian Grazer claims that digital effects can only emphasize its scale. It remains to be seen when it will happen and with whom.
Source: Allocine
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