Sarà Taylor Hackford a dirigere The Comedian con De Niro, non Sean Penn e neanche più Mike Newell
Un film che vede, per problemi conflittuali con la data delle riprese, sempre rimandate, eterni, persistenti cambi di regia.
Stavolta, la/il nostro Deadline riporta, speriamo che sia la scelta definitiva (il regista non ci pare malvagio, anzi), che è subentrato dietro la macchina da presa il signor Helen Mirren, cioè Taylor Hackford, autore di pregevoli pellicole e anche partorente però, altresì, film abbastanza indegni.
Auguriamoci il meglio possibile da questo film oramai già tanto discusso che tanto sta a cuore a De Niro e soprattutto al suo produttore Art Linson, entrambi amici (non) fid(at)i da una vita memorabile di
grandi opere, vedesi Heat.
De Niro will play a toxic insult comic on the order of a Don Rickles (with whom De Niro starred in Casino). It will be De Niro’s second time working the crowd for laughs, after he played the iconic stalker/aspiring comedian Rupert Pupkin inThe King Of Comedy. The project has been one both De Niro and Linson have been trying to pull together for years, and the stand-up material was written by Jeffrey Ross, a staple of Friars and celebrity roasts on Comedy Central who usually outshines the rest of the dais. Linson wrote the Hollywood-centric pic What Just Happened?, which starred De Niro as a harried producer.
Hackford most recently helmed the Jason Statham-starrer Parker and before that Love Ranch and Ray, which won Jamie Foxx the Oscar for playing Ray Charles. De Niro has the Nancy Meyers-directed The Intern opposite Anne Hathaway, and stars with Edgar Ramirez in the Jonathan Jacubowicz-directed Hands Of Stone, which The Weinstein Company acquired at Cannes for release next year. He recently wrapped the Scott Mann-directed heist film Bus 657, and the David O Russell-directed Joy with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, and will star opposite Zac Efron in the Dan Mazer-directed comedy Dirty Grandpa.
