Bharat Nalluri

Angelina Jolie’s THE TOURIST Could Gain Johnny Depp but Has Already Lost Sam Worthington and Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 4th, 2009 at 7:24 pm

“The Tourist” just can’t seem to find a destination.  The story–an American tourist drawn into a web of intrigue and danger by a female Interpol agent as she attempts to locate a criminal who was once her lover–originally starred Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron with directing by Bharat Nalluri (“Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”).  Then Cruise dropped out to co-star in “Knight and Day” (formerly “Witchita”) with Cameron Diaz.  In his place came Sam Worthington.  Then Theron split and Jolie came aboard.  A week later, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (“The Lives of Others”) joined the project.

But now Worthington and von Donnersmarck are both gone over the infamous “creative differences” and Johnny Depp is in talks to take Worthington’s role.  And as for the director, many are scrapping for the gig, including Alfonso Cuaron.  Hit the jump for more details.

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