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EXCLUSIVE: Savages, the Oliver Stone-directed adaptation of the Don Winslow novel, is zeroing in on a distribution deal. Universal is in pole position with two others in the running. Along with Aaron Johnson, Stone is in talks with Taylor Kitsch to play the two Laguna-based pot growers arm-twisted into working for a Mexican cartel when they kidnap O, the free spirited best friend of the growers. Kitsch, best known for Friday Night Lights and a showy small role as Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, just starred in Universal’s Battleship after completing the title role in Disney’s John Carter of Mars. The distribution situation should be resolved within the next week, but I’m hearing Universal will wind up with the picture.
Aside from Johnson and Kitsch, I’ve heard Stone is looking at Salma Hayek to play the cartel matriarch, an iron-fisted beauty who becomes intrigued and practically maternal over the kidnapped gal. But business is business, and the drug kingpin is suddenly plagued by a problem: someone is ripping off her drug shipments. What she doesn’t know is it’s the guys she’s trying to muscle. Kitsch plays Chon, an iron-hard former operative who is a remorseless killer and seems to only have room in his heart for his growing partner and O. Jennifer Lawrence has fallen out of the O role because of her commitment to The Hunger Game, and Stone is looking at candidates like Olivia Wilde, as the director works on honing the script written by Shane Salerno and Winslow.
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Does this mean Stone is no longer involved in the Travis McGee/Deep Blue Good-bye?
If I’m Oliver Stone, I would try to cast Dakota Johnson for the O role. (She had her breakthrough moment in “The Social Network”)
YES!! Please, for the love of God. He’s the best!
>Jennifer Lawrence has fallen out of the O role because of her commitment to The Hunger Game<
I hope that she will get other movies that aren't so commercial. Beside her smaller roles in The Beaver and Like Crazy she has X-Men: First Class, House at the End of the Street (horror) and the franchise The Hunger Games coming out.
Perhaps she’s fallen out because she’s rumored to be pregnant?
“Savages” is yet another movie about…savages, lowlifes, the scum of the earth.
Stone sure knows how to pick them!
Do we really need to see another movie about kidnapping, druggies, and violence?
Does EVERY movie-except comedies-have to be DRAMA about cops, robbers, hitmen, mafioso, druggies, violent love stories, murderers, liars, and every manner of assorted lowlife?
Does every drama have to portray a woman in trouble-kidnapped, assaulted, cheated on, tricked, or terrorized by masked killers?
Stone’s “Savages” will appeal to the #1 demographic of 14-35 males who LOVE watching violence-the more violent, the better.
This 14-35 male demo is the cash cow of movies, the demo that keeps on giving.
Want to make bank in H?
Just get Stone to direct a movie about weed, kidnappers, graphic screen violence that Stone relishes, a YOUNG pretty girl in trouble, a hunky guy coming to rescue the Lady in Distress, and an Act 3 featuring Hollywood justice meted out to the baddies.
Is it financially impossible to do movies today with big name actors without guns, fights, killings, drama, terror, and graphic violence?
The MPAA says that all this is PG13, so movies like this are for kids of all ages.
Why not a blockbuster about some “highlifes”:People who do good and have a lot to teach us about the good things of life.
Is such a movie about “highlifes” even feasible for a major studio Not Indies), except maybe Disney?
Hey Oliver, a suggestion for your next movie:
An entire movie about Good People doing wonderful things WITHOUT a single…gun, criminal act of violence, cop, robber, military, thug, womanizer, Wall Streeter, flaming explosion, fist fight, foul mouthed punks, etc.
You can do it! I have faith in YOU!
No one wants to see a bunch of goody goodies like yourself doing boring shit. People want to see hot girls w/ tight waists and firm tits and bad guys w/ big guns and manly men who toss their women around and fuck the shit out of them. If you don’t understand that this is the world outside of your suburban existence, you should probably move to Canada. Or, back to Canada, I should say. Like Godard said, all you need to make a good movie (at least all a good director needs is a girl and a gun).
P.S. Did you forget about (a) The Social Network, (b) The King’s Speech, (c) Black Swan, (d) Winter’s Bone, (e) Somewhere, (f) The Fighter, (g) et cetera.
You may not know much about writing compelling stories, but those narratives w/o real conflict and real obstacles are boring.
Taylor is soon going to be the biggest movie star in the world. He’s incredibly likeable and charismatic.
“likable?” Charismatic?” You forgot to say, he can act. I’m not saying he can’t, but I would like to reserve that right when he actually does something worthy of praise.
He can act. Anyone who watched his performance as Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights knows that. And that series was better than 99% of the films Hollywood is producing.
Kitsch and Aaron Johnson in a movie together?! Sounds like this movie is destined for the trash bin. Neither can act very well.
You obviously don’t have an eye for talent and shouldn’t be in this business. Both are extremely talented and charismatic. I got nothin but love for both. I’m kinda drunk right now too.
In which movies, pray tell, exactly did Kitsch and Johnson prove their acting prowess? So far, they seem to only get cast for their faces and asses.
Another much-hyped about movie from an over-the-hill director with several flops in his greyhead career… YET still manages to sell his movies… yikes!
Over the hill?
Do you have any idea how hard it is to be involved in but ONE good movie in your career, as a writer, director, actor or producer?
Oliver Stone has been involved in several.
The guy is a national treasure, responsible for some of cinemas most beloved jewels.
Scarface, Platoon, Born on the 4th, JFK, Wall Street…
When one achieves such greatness, yes, he deserves to keep making movies.
Even the best baseball players in the world fail seven out of ten times. When in a creative field like Stone, one is sure to explore and turn out some films that are not up to par. But to try and slight anyone who has achieved what this man has is just silly.
There are a handful of directors from the 80′s still making good or better films, even a few from the 70′s, but let’s not pretend that Oliver Stone is one of them. The guy hasn’t made a decent film since “Nixon” 16 yrs ago.
Jennifer’s replacement..Olivia Wilde. Disagree. Young role, try someone unknown with talent.Seems for young Hollywood they cast the same all the time, some with great talent some without. Try the heading “introducing …..”
Agree. It is why I think Oliver Stone can cast Dakota Johnson.
I love how the cast of “Friday Night Lights” is taking over the world. It leaves me feeling good about hollywood.
I think I’m being told to love Olivia Wilde, but I don’t. She’s very pretty, I know, but I’m not liking that kool aid. Only time will tell, I guess.
If Stone leaves the 3 way in and I’m pretty sure he will, that should be worth the price of admission alone.
Me, I’m going to attend to learn more about the Mexican cartels and what havoc they wreak on a defenseless society.
But c’mon Kitsch really can act. His relationship w/ the Scott Porter character was really well-acted and believable.
And the episode where he and Lyla and Jason went to Mexico was good.
Well, to be absolutely frank, I don’t know jack shit about Aaron Johnson so I can’t completely defend him BUT when it comes to Taylor “Move Me to Tears” Kitsch, you can bet I can defend him plenty. It’s obvious you haven’t seen much of the series “Friday Night Lights”, Basil. Or even “The Bang Bang Club”. I’ll admit that “X-Men Origins: Wolvervine” disappointed me deeply but even there, Taylor kicked ass and excelled with the material given to him. He’s recieved RAVE reviews for his skills and he has Hollywood kicking down his door with parts. The next time you want to downtalk talent, order a sample of their work from Netflix. Maybe you’ll discover new talent.