Hugh Jackman has revived “Prisoners”
Through participation of Hugh Jackman in the film "Prisoners" has found a new breath. Previously, the project undertook a variety of directors, and interested in the title role, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Fassbender. Now "Prisoners" are run under the leadership of the Canadian Denis Villeneuve, whose "Incendies" nominated for "Oscar" for best foreign film.
The hero of "Prisoners" Keller (Jackman) - a carpenter from a small town. His six year old daughter and her friend are kidnapped. Distraught Keller decides for himself to deal with the matter, finds a man who believed involved in the crime, and takes hostages. In parallel, he investigates a young and ambitious detective who can not wait to get out of the wilderness to the city. Clash of Keller and the police will be one of the major plot lines of the film.
The script for "Prisoners" wrote Aaron Guzikovsky, and his work circulated in Hollywood since 2007. But only after Mark Wahlberg in 2009 drew attention to this mix the "Seven" and "Silence of the Lambs," as it described a scenario, the project began to take shape. But then, in 2009, nothing happened. Since Guzikovsky became known in Hollywood as a writer of "Contraband," but for "Prisoners" were used a variety of directors.
The first laid eyes on a project Bryan Singer. It was he who had to make a film with Wahlberg. But as time went on, "Prisoners" does not move off the ground, and Singer began to shoot fairy tale "Jack – the giants’ killer". Since then, the director's chair of "Prisoners" was seized by David O. Russell and Daniel Espinoza, but the last was by Antoine Fuqua. The director of "King Arthur" planned to work on the "Prisoners" in March of 2010, and the film even got a release date - October 22, 2010. Starring Hugh Jackman was listed, but, as you might guess, then, too, did not work.
Now the project is taken by Denis Villeneuve, and starring Jackman was back. The actor plans to star in "Prisoners" in early 2013 - before the actor is free. Now Hugh acted in the musical Tom Hooper's "Les Miserables", and then again will try on a suit of Wolverine from the comics Marvel.
Producers of Alcon Company, where will be shoot "Prisoners", of course, are on the seventh heaven, having obtained the lead role, Hugh Jackman, and as a director - the talented Canadian director.
The release of the film is scheduled for November 2013-th.