Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson Are Unbound Captives
Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson will star in the period drama Unbound Captives with Madeleine Stowe making her directorial debut from a script she wrote.
Weisz’ character will be one whose husband is killed and her two children kidnapped by a Comanche war party in 1859. She is rescued by a frontiersman, to be played by Jackman. Pattinson will play the son.
Originally the vehicle was to be a starring role for Stowe but her part will now go to Rachel Weitz. According to Variety who reported the story, Stowe landing that cast is a payoff for her risky decision to turn down millions of dollars for the script in 1993.
“Fox offered Stowe $3 million, and later $5 million, for her script, with Ridley Scott poised to direct and Russell Crowe to star. She turned down what was among the highest sums offered a first-time scribe because there was no promise she would be anything more than screenwriter.”
The last interesting part of the article is that Stowe will be behind the camera but a have a great cinematographer in John Toll, who shot Braveheart and The Last Samurai. I think it is amazing that Stowe turned down all that money so she could hold on to the rains of her project finally grabbing Gil Netter and Grant Hill to produce with Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment.
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