I can’t wait to see a documentary on the making of JANE GOT A GUN, as it has been plagued with troubles over the last month. First of all Michael Fassbender has to bow out due to scheduling conflicts with X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, which meant Joel Edgerton, who had been cast as the villain, stepped into Fassbender’s vacated hero role. Jude Law was then cast as the villain, but after director Lynne Ramsay controversially left the project on the day production was supposed to begin, Law also jumped ship. Producers quickly secured WARRIOR director Gavin O’Connor as director, but was still left with a vacant spot where the villain should be.
Well the investors, who were concerned after Fassbender’s exit, can now rest easy thanks to Bradley Cooper. The Oscar nominated actor, currently making waves opposite Ryan Gosling in A PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, will take on the role of the antagonist opposite Edgerton’s hero.
The only constant in all of this has been the film’s heroine Natalie Portman. Portman plays a young woman whose husband returns home riddled with bullets and warning her that the men responsible are hot on his heels. Portman turns to her ex-lover (Edgerton) to help protect her farm and husband.
I’ve never really been a fan of Ramsay, but adore WARRIOR, so I am very excited to see O’Connor take on this film. Especially looking at how well he has handled so much controversy and pressure. Cooper and Edgerton are both on the up-and-up as actors and seeing them going up against each other is just as exciting, if not more so, than the prospect of Fassbender and Law.
JANE GOT A GUN should be released sometime in 2014, hoping there are no further delays.
Source: Deadline
