12 Castings For New Movies That Prove Hollywood Has Gone Insane
8. Sacha Baron Cohen - Grimsby
In Grimsby, Mark Strong will play a hard-nosed British spy - an entirely not unexpected development - whose brother is a football hooligan. A culture clash buddy cop movie: a lot of people will be able to get on board with that.
And then you realise that the football hooligan in question is the same man who brought Ali G, Bruno and Borat to the big screen. Which makes it somewhat difficult to accept, particularly if you have much more than a cursory knowledge of real football hooligans. Fair play if he's going to be a rubbish one, though.
Will It Work?
He's proved himself something of a chameleon in the past, so perhaps he's going to shock everyone again.
What's even more jarring is the idea of Penelope Cruz, Gabourey Sidibe and Rebel Wilson having any association with Grimsby. Hollywood it firmly isn't.