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As long as the wolves don't turn into naked native american boys, I'm THERE!
Liam Neeson is in negotiations to reteam with director Joe Carnahan for the survival drama The Grey. Heat Vision reports the actor will be taking over the role that was originally assigned to Bradley Cooper earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival. Inferno Entertainment is financing the film, which is being produced by Scott Free. Inferno's Bill Johnson is producing with Carnahan and Jules Daly. Director Carnahan (Smokin' Aces) is leading the production from a script he wrote with Ian Jeffers.
Plot Concept: The story begins after a plane goes down in Alaska, with a man (Neeson) and his oil drilling team find themselves struggling to survive in the wild. The men come under attack by large, vicious, aggressive wolves who see the humans as intruders who must be killed.
As long as the wolves don't turn into naked native american boys, I'm THERE!
Actually, I read a script review of a 2007 draft of this script and it said it was pretty damn good. Of course a lot can change from script to finished product but I think this is definitely something I will be keeping my eye on.
Obviously, I spend too much tim eon this site, as I thought the same thing as Wiseguy. The concept of surviving in tough elements sounds interesting (kinda' like an adult version of Hatchet), but the notion that a pack of wolves would stay in hot pursuit is, as fft5305 has mentioned, pretty absurd. That's wasting a lot of time and energy on a meal that comes at a pretty high cost (e.g. prey that can kill you). The only Alaskan animals that would do such a thing are mama grizzlies. Okay... that was bad...
I think it sounds ok. I like Neeson. When i first started reading this, plane crash, oil team, wilderness, i was thinking oh this is flight of the phoenix, but then I heard wolves and I'm thinking now, might be interesting, though wolves are usually not that aggresive.
and when was the last time you saw Liam Neeson in a yawnfest? I think he's earned the benefit of the doubt.
Last time I saw Liam Neeson in a yawnfest was in Chloe. However, midway through the movie Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried had a lesbian sex scene and the movie stopped being a yawnfest. Good times.
Wolves, seriously? Why does Hollywood insist on ignoring reality to fit the needs of their ridiculous plotlines?
I'll be rooting for the wolves.
For a second there I thought Neeson was going to portray Gandalf