Bradley Cooper is 35. His A-Team co-star, Liam Neeson is 58. Their A-Team director Joe Carnahan (41) finds Neeson to be a perfectly suitable replacement for Cooper in his survival drama, The Grey. This isn’t the most drastic retooling Hollywood has ever done (a pre-Jolie Salt was originally intended for Tom Cruise), but I find it significant. Maybe in return, Cooper can fill in for Neeson on Steven Spielberg’s Abraham Lincoln biopic.
Per Heat Vision, the script from Carnahan and Ian Jeffers (Death Sentence) begins with a plane crash in Alaska: “A man (Neeson) and his oil drilling team find themselves struggling to survive in the wild. The men come under attack by large, vicious, aggressive wolves who see the humans as intruders who must be killed.” Though Cooper may have the vitality of youth on his side, I actually buy Neeson more as a badass wolf killer. I’m sure Carnahan and Cooper would have made a fine movie together. But Neeson takes it to a different level… for me. Anyone not on board with this development?
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Neeson is more convincing for this part. Or the alternative would be a dude laughing at wolves all the time trying to pose GQ style and eventually getting eaten up by the buggers.
Neeson is more convincing for this part. Or the alternative would be a dude laughing at wolves all the time trying to pose GQ style and eventually getting eaten up by the buggers.
Good choice.
Neeson is a much better choice.
Very disappointed with the choice especially after reading the script. I can’t buy Liam performing the physical stuff required in the script.
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Read the script and Neeson is a MUCH better choice than Cooper is. In fact, Neeson is perfect. He proved in TAKEN that he can still handle the physical derring-do. More importantly, Neeson is a much more charismatic actor than Cooper. I’ll even go several steps further: The differences between these two guys are so striking that Neeson’s superiority transcends the realm of mere opinion and verges instead into fact. Taht’s right: empirical FACT. Cooper doing this movie would’ve been a disaster.