This movie is very much in the tradition of “Romancing the Stone,” an adventure with romantic-comedy elements. RADCLIFFE Speaking of titles, good luck, because “What If” was once called “The F Word.” It stood for “friend” in that context and they were still like, “No, you can’t even imply that in people’s minds,” so they called it “What If,” which could be the title of any film about anything. I just want people to see stories that they relate to, whether it’s at home or in the theater.ĭaniel, even when you starred in the 2013 romantic comedy “What If,” it felt like those films were already becoming a rarity. I like being able to play in all the fields that I want to play in, and I don’t want to be limited. It took three years for you to follow that up with another starring vehicle - the drama “The Unforgivable,” which was also for Netflix.īULLOCK No studio would have made “Unforgivable” and put it on the big screen in this time that we’re in.
Scott had just been wooed by Netflix, and he said, “Would you consider doing it over here? We can make the film we want to make.” I was really intrigued by it because, as a woman, we are limited in what our choices are, but then you go to Netflix and they’re like, “We’ll give you whatever you need.” Sandra, your thriller “Bird Box” was one of the first certified streaming blockbusters.īULLOCK “Bird Box” originally was at Universal with Scott Stuber producing, and it was intended for theaters, but we couldn’t get the financing that we needed to pull it off. A lot of the stuff I do is so weird that I’m like, “Whoever’s going to let me make this, I am going to go with.” But ultimately, I just want to make stuff that I like, and I don’t really mind too much where it gets seen. RADCLIFFE With this film specifically, I hope people are in a place where they feel like they can go to the theater and enjoy it, because this is a grab-your-friends-and-go-cheer movie that lends itself to a big communal experience. We were just like, “OK, we’re a small movie, we don’t really have control over whether this is going to go straight to streaming.” But I was confident that “The Lost City” deserves to be on a big screen, and I thought that Sandy was going to protect that. I just opened “Dog,” and we weren’t sure if it was going to go to theaters when Amazon bought MGM. TATUM The rules are so amorphous at the moment that I don’t think it’s really up to us.
You’ve all starred in some pretty huge box office hits, but how do you decide now whether you should do a project for streaming or for theaters? Does that distinction matter to you? And as Loretta and Alan try to escape together, sparks fly, punches are thrown and swamp leeches are picked carefully off his naked body.īut the movie comes with an additional set of stakes specific to Hollywood’s post-pandemic future: As the theatrical business constricts, will people still go see an old-fashioned comic adventure where the actors lack any superpowers besides A-list charisma? It helps that “Dog,” which Tatum co-directed and starred in, was a recent theatrical hit, but Hollywood will also look to coming films like “The Lost City” and “Bullet Train” (a Pitt-led action comedy in which Bullock returns the favor with a cameo of her own) to determine whether there’s a path for big studio movies outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The novelist’s cover model Alan (Tatum) mounts an unlikely rescue, helped, at times, by an equally dashing but far more capable mercenary (Brad Pitt, in a cameo). In “The Lost City” (in theaters March 25), Bullock plays romance novelist Loretta Sage, whose life is on autopilot until she’s kidnapped by a rich eccentric (Radcliffe) who believes she can lead him to a hidden treasure buried deep in the jungle. “It’s a major coup when you can safely allow your child to go to someone else’s house without thinking they’re going to die.” “Daniel, you’ll experience this one day,” Bullock said. On a lively Zoom call with their “Lost City” co-star Daniel Radcliffe, Bullock and Tatum described what it’s like now that her daughter, Laila, and his daughter, Everly, have both reached the sleepover stage. © 2019 Minnesota Vikings Football, LLC, All Rights Reserved.They play potential lovers in “The Lost City,” but in real life, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum share a very different kind of bond: They’re play-date parents.
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