Saturday, September 3, 2011

The Last Stand

The “He said he’d be back” jokes are a bit tired now, but Arnold Schwarzenegger is nonetheless officially confirmed to return to acting in the action vehicle, The Last Stand.
Last Stand will see Korean filmmaker Jee-Woon Kim (a.k.a. Ji-Woon Kim) cross over into English-language moviemaking, after having helmed cult titles like The Good, the Bad, the Weird and I Saw the Devil. When previously asked about his first Hollywood project, Kim described it as being a cross between Die Hard and High Noon, indicating the picture would boil down to a contemporary western, with lots of violence, to boot.
According to a Deadline insider, however, the Last Stand script reads as “more of a ‘Fast And Furious’ at the [Mexican] border with high speed car chases, drug cartels and the like.” So ...