The Last Days of American Crime

Music Video Director Anthony Mandler in Talks to Adapt Comic THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: March 12th, 2012 at 6:56 pm

Anthony Mandler is in demand as a commercial/music video director, and hopes to parlay that status into a chance at the movies.  Mandler has been linked to the Dracula reimagining Vlad and the Zac Efron vehicle Die in a Gunfight, but both are still in development.  Instead, the graphic novel adaptation The Last Days of American Crime could jump the queue to become Mandler’s feature debut.  The script by Karl Gajdusek (Dead Like Me) is set in the future, when America develops the technology to eliminate the criminal impulse in response to a major terrorist attack: “The protagonist leads a heist team that plans to pull off a final job five days before the signal rubs out the criminal instinct.”

Sam Worthington signed on for a supporting role in 2009, and Deadline says Noomi Rapace was attached to star at one point.  It is unclear if either actor is still involved with the project, thought it is probably a bad sign that the planned September 2011 start date for a production directed by F. Gary Gray came and went.  Hit the jump for a synopsis of the comic and a sampling of Mandler’s music video work.

F. Gary Gray to Direct THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME Starring Sam Worthington

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 9th, 2011 at 6:58 am

Back in November 2009, before Sam Worthington broke out with Avatar but after he had garnered some attention for Termination Salvation, he signed on to star in an adaptation of the comic book The Last Days of American Crime.  And the project has been silent until today.  Deadline is reporting that director F. Gary Gray (Law Abiding Citizen) will helm the project, which centers on a group of thieves who plan to pull off a heist before America launches a new mind-control technology that will erase the criminal impulse in all citizens.  Karl Gajdusek (Horizons) is rewriting the script.

While Worthington has a slew of projects at his disposal, Deadline reports that he’ll do American Crime as his follow up to the Clash of the Titans sequel.  Shooting is expected to begin in September. Hit the jump for the comic’s official synopsis.

Sam Worthington Teams with Radical Studios to Develop Properties for His New Production Company; First Project is DAMAGED

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 30th, 2010 at 4:08 pm

Actor Sam Worthington has decided he’s not busy enough with the 78 billion movies he’s attached to and so he’s started up his own production company, Full Clip Productions.  Now, Heat Vision reports that Full Clip is teaming with comic publishing house Radical Studios to “create and develop intellectual property that would be published with an eye towards screen adaptations.  Radical is almost as busy as Worthington, and has been developing the twisted fairy tale Legends for Imagine Entertainment, and Oblivion with director Joseph Kosinski (TRON Legacy).

Worthington and Radical already had a working relationship as he’s attached to produce and start in an adaptation of their graphic novel, The Last Days of American Crime.  Hit the jump to learn about their new project, Damaged and run the list of Worthington’s other projects.

Sam Worthington Signs on for Adaptation of Upcoming Comic Series THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 19th, 2009 at 9:02 am

Here’s hoping that Sam Worthington is the real deal.  He was good in Terminator Salvation (although he had some trouble nailing down an American accent and occasionally lapsed back into his native Australian) but he’ll have to win over audiences in a big way with his leading performances in Avatar and Clash of the Titans if he wants to lessen the inevitable backlash towards him for having the audacity to be a rising star in Hollywood.

Thankfully, Worthington is playing it smart and not trying to be the biggest star in every upcoming blockbuster.  He’ll just be one of the biggest co-stars in the upcoming adaptation of the upcoming comic book series The Last Days of American Crime.  Hit the jump for details.

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