Taking a paycheck gig is excusable only on very few occasions, and OWF will only hand out the limited Get Out of Jail Free Cards to those who have a legit reason to sell themselves out. But we are mailing one out to
Tom Hardy today, and here's why; The
Inception scene-stealer has been inexhaustibly training his body and mind for weeks in preparation to star in
George Miller's two film
Mad Max: Fury Road epic. However as that movie has recently being pushed back a year, Hardy's immediate schedule has free'd up. No doubt mentally drained and with only a few weeks to decide on his next job from the limited roles out there, we can understand him taking a light-hearted mindless movie for what is almost like a holiday for him. Something he can just ease himself into, everybody's gotta eat, pay bills, etc.
Tom Hardy has agreed to star in
McG'sbig budget, love triangle, rom-com actioner
This Means War at 20th Century Fox. He will star opposite
Chris Evans as a pair of two best friend black-ops spies who wage war against other each after falling in love with the same woman (
Reese Witherspoon), with New York City as an unfortunate backdrop.
Mark my words it's a paycheck job. The script has been floating around for a decade , and has recently been passed on by
Sam Worthington,
Seth Rogen, Bradley Cooper, Justin Timberlake, Colin Farrell and probably more. Cooper and Worthington had both agreed to star, before fully understanding how bad the script was. It's a typical 21st century Fox tentpole, very similar to the long-assed script development of
The A-Team and
Knight & Day, and you would think the studio would have learnt it's lesson about what happens when you try to flop a dead horse by now?
As cool as it'll be to see Captain Kirk wage war on Jean-Luc Picard's clone, we know shit when we see it.