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by Matt Goldberg Posted:May 13th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
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You can’t keep Sam Worthington away from playing an action sci-fi hero. After breaking out last year with Terminator Salvation and the indie flick Avatar, Worthington is now attached to DreamWorks’ sci-fi take on the literary hero Quatermain. Heat Vision reports that Worthington will not only star but make his debut as a producer on the film. The character originated in H. Rider Haggard’s novel King Solomon’s Mines where he led an expedition into Africa to find his friend’s brother and a treasure of the lost mines. Per Heat Vision, ” DreamWorks’ version is set in a time in which humans have left Earth and sees Quatermain return to the planet from a sojourn in space, embarking on another “King Solomon’s Mines”-style adventure but on a planetwide scale.”
Worthington’s already keeping busy. He’s currently shooting on Ami Canaan Mann’s crime-thriller The Fields, he’s attached to Clash of the Titans 2 and Avatar 2, and he’s been linked to Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future and Dracula: Year Zero. I’m so happy the guy can act and has charisma or else all this would be terrible news.
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I like the guy. I think he is a good actor. Now if only the movies he's in were better.
that last line was sarcastic right? im new to this site
Knowing Matt, it is.
But I'm with junierizzle here. Sam is amazing in his Aussie films, which – it seems – no one saw. Now, the American ones gave him the recognition he wanted, but not necessarily the chance to show his range. There is hoping his future films will marry the two.
I don't think the reporter's line is sarcastic. He probably believes Worthington is a good actor. He's only slightly – by a hair's breadth- better than Shia Labeouf. He is very wooden and when he is supposed to be American his Aussie accent comes out half of the time. See Terminator, Avatar, and Clash of the Titans. He's a little dude to boot.
Sam Worthington should return to acting school..
This is the worst casting I've heard in ages. This a brilliant book, and Worthington is absolutely 1000% not Allan Quartermain. That the movie is just called 'Quartermain' automatically means major suck-age, this is more a Viggo Mortensen project then Avatar boys, really this is truly disappointing. Were the Quartermain films of the 80's not bad enoguh?
Unlike Shia, Worthington at least looks like he'd be semi enjoyable to meet.
Not only return to acting school but also he should wear lifts in his shoes like Tom Cruise.
Could he be any worse than Sean Connery's Quatermain abomination in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
At least Connery vaguely, vaguely made seance. But the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen book features the only Allan I would want to see. You know this is going to be a 3-D, CGIed mess.
And let the backlash begin….I knew the guy was gonna be a star from Terminator Salvation, the guy just holds the screen. I think they missed the mark a little bit with the way he played Perseus (too soft and agsty) I'm definitely in for his next project because we need a good action star, our last generation is getting a little long in the tooth. (Ford, Willis etc.)