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Denzel Washington is looking to join producer Scott Stuber on Safe House, a David Guggenheim-scripted Universal Pictures drama that will be directed by Daniel Espinosa (Snabba Cash) about a young CIA agent who must transport a dangerous criminal to safety after both are attacked at a safe house. First word of this came from New York Mag’s Vulture website, which puts Washington in the criminal role. That’s something Washington has done with relish in American Gangster and his Oscar-winning turn in Training Day. Washington’s coming off the Tony Scott-directed drama Unstoppable with Chris Pine. Pine also met on the project to play the CIA agent, I’ve heard, but the studio claims there won’t be a re-team. Insiders say Washington’s in discussions.
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I hope this is better than 16 blocks and Assault on Precinct 13. Love Denzel, he’s better than most of the material he ends up with….
Gotta love the bold originality Marie.
I’ll assume you know that 16 Blocks was Mos Def and Assault on Precinct 13 was Fishburne. You’re referring to hoping it’s better than movies mentioned being of the genre, right?
And 16 BLOCKS was a nice tight B-movie–better-scripted than most of this summer’s crop.
Man, I respect Denzel. But this ‘plot’ is so old it would make Pelosi look young by comparison. Come on, escorting someone in danger has been done to death in so many versions. “3:10 to Yuma” (both versions), “16 Blocks”, “The Last Detail”, “S.W.A.T.”, “Eraser”, “Rio Bravo”, (even “Kindergarten Cop”), etc. I mean, they’ve all done it!
Sigh. It explains that line from “L.A. Confidential”: “Hey, nothing too original. After all, this is Hollywood.”
sounds very pre-3-D…. brooklyn’s finest… pass
Wow another movie Denzel will be frowning in sign me up!
I love this guy and watch everything he makes. Looking forward to it.
Hey Mike, not to be a wise guy, but isn’t the real story here not whether Denzel is going to do the movie, but rather WHO is representing Denzel in this deal now that his longtime agent Ed Limato has passed away?
I have to imagine that other agencies have begun approaching Denzel to try to poach him away from WME…and since Denzel was always loyal to Ed Limato and not to any particular agency, this seems to me to be the more interesting story.
Any updates on that?
Denzel wasn’t in either of those….Laurence Fishburne was in Assault on Precinct 13 and Mos Def was in 16 Blocks…
or do we all look alike to you??
This has the same basic idea as “16 Blocks” and “Assault on Precinct 13″, escorting a criminal through danger. The comment has nothing to with the race of the actors. Same idea as “3:10 to Yuma” too.
I would watch Denzel read the phone book… One of the best actors around!!!!!
I see lots of unfair criticism here. Although it is true that the plot is far from original I think the movie will be decent. Denzel like many actors who we’ve seen time and time again is somewhat predictable but at this point he’s just giving his fans what they come to see.
Denzel is a great actor, who will only read something with a money offer in place, which generally means hacky crap. I’m sure he reads stuff from a couple of directors who were good twenty years ago without money attached up front, so he’s basically stuck with highly paid garbage or two directors who aint what they used to be.
Of course, if he was willing to read something before the studios got to it, it would get financed, he would get his check and he might not always be the only good thing in his movies.
Yes, I know Denzel wasn’t in either of those films. I’m referring to the similarity in the storylines.
I am black, too, you clever clever boy.
I read this script a few months ago… a few good lines but I found it boring and formulaic. Denzel is a very inspired casting choice, though… not sure how this will turn out.
Good for Guggenheim! That guy is kicking ass.
Denzel was so good in Training Day that even if the plot of this new one is not incredibly original, it will be fun to see him play a bad guy again. He’s very good at it!
Denzel won an Oscar as the bad guy in TD because there’s an anger in him that finally came through. It’ll be good to see him “vent” again. He’s best when he’s on the edge, even in something as banal as John Q. And who can forget his crying session in the otherwise unremarkable Courage Under Fire. He’s really a great actor who rarely gets to show it (maybe in Bway’s Fences) but it’d be nice if he’d pop up in some challenging indie stuff. If Bruce Willis can, why not DZ?
Anything my brother’s in I will support..love, love him!!and we hv same birth date!!! Malcolm X was best role ever!!