The Chris Morgan connection didn't hurt this deal...Wanted(2008), Fast and Furious(2009), Tokyo Drift(2006)...all were produced by Relativity and all are Chris Morgan scripts.
This announcement is great news...better news than I've read in a long, long time.
Here's why:
-Their action movies (more often than not) make money.
-They've worked with Ryan Reynolds before.
-Their The Holiday with Kate Winslett...one of my Gia hopefuls.
-Hellboy II: Guillermo Del Toro...'nuf-said
-Hellboy II: Doug Jones as Momma Rakosh and/or Scarlip=AWESOME
-They have a number of serious dramas in their filmography to go with their successful action and comedy films...there are very few "dogs" there.
-They have a number of other "big" projects coming up in addition to Fast&Furious...Ron Pearlman and Nicholas Cage in Season of the Witch, Nichole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Penelope Cruz, Daniel Day Lewis, etc. in Nine, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Paul Giamati in Duplicity, Mila Jovovich, Tim Olyphant, Steve Zahn in A Perfect Getaway, Jake Gylenhall, Toby McGuire and Natalie Portman in Brothers, Clive Owen and Naomi Watts' The International, Bruce Willis and Julianne Moore in Morgan's Summit, Will Smith's Seven Pounds
-They have 10 films slated for 2009 and only 5, so far, in 2010...RJ1 could very well fit there.
The anticipation has begun.
-Wapitikev
Axioms Jack seems to live by (inadvertantly or not):
Why he does what he does: "I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either." Bruce Wayne, Identity Crisis
On Rasalom: "Water's wet, the sky is blue...and good old Satan Claus, Jimmy...he's out there...and he's just gettin' stronger." Joe Hallenbeck, The Last Boyscout