Speaking to Empire Magazine, Joe Gatta, producer behind the upcoming reboot of Conan the Barbarian, revealed that Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) is no longer attached to the project.
Gatta said: "We’re currently in the process of hiring a director. For the past six months we were discussing the movie with Brett Ratner, and for more timing issues than anything else we had to part ways with Brett. We all wanted him to do it, believe me; just the timing didn’t work."
Production on the film begins August 24 in Bulgaria. A new director is being searched for.
Even with reports dismissing his involvement with the project, Brett Ratner still wants to be a part of Conan the Barbarian reboot, talking with MTV about the casting.
Who would he have play Conan? “It should be an unknown,” he said. “Conan is kind of iconic. It’s kind of like when you do Superman. It’s difficult to fill those shoes but they came up with a new Batman, they came up with a new James Bond, you know?”
Well, to be honest, both Christian Bale and Daniel Craig were well known actors before they got their respective roles.
Ratner will next be working on the fourth Beverly Hills Cop film that will be shot sometime later this year.
Brett Ratner, infamous for movies such as Rush Hour and X-Men: The Last Stand, may have left the film adaptation of video game series God of War.
He is reported to be focusing on the Chris Tucker and Eddie Murphy team-up vehicle Trump Heist as his next project.
It is not known what state the God of War film is in currently. However, this means that the project will be switched to someone else – might be a godsend, might be a disaster – or Ratner himself might come back to it later.
God of War 3 is currently in development exclusively for the PS3.
The Conan film isn’t coming as soon as you’d like, as The LA Times carries statements from Brett Ratner – the director himself – that he’s not doing the film now.
“This is totally premature,” he said. “For now, ‘Conan’ is only a development deal.” Ratner added that he is doing Beverly Hills Cop first “no matter what.”
Meanwhile, Millennium Films chief Avi Lerner acknowledged the issue, noting that the company “still [has] a few obstacles… Brett is only committed if we agree on a budget, on how to do the special effects and exactly where we’d shoot the film.”
Lerner added that he has also offered Schwarzenegger $1 million to do a one-day cameo in the picture. The California governor is yet to respond.
Having been denied a Guitar Hero movie, Brett Ratner has finally confirmed that he has officially scored a new game-film adaptation – God of War. His attachment to the film was a rumor that emerged in May.
Based on the popular action game by Sony, the film will follow series protagonist Kratos as he embarks on a journey to kill the Greek god of war Ares, facing mythological beasts and whatnot in the process.
The project joins the Hugh Hefner biopic and Beverly Hills Cop 4 on Ratner’s schedule.
Thank the gaming gods today; in fact, go out and buy some music games as a tribute to the merciful gods, as Brett Ratner, the director who is obsessed with a particular rhythm game franchise, has been denied the right to make a movie based on the Guitar Hero franchise.
“I’d really like to do it, but they’re not letting me… I expressed my interest, but because it’s such a success, it’s like now there’s no reason to make a movie about it,” he said quite disappointedly. “The game is wish-fulfilling, everyone can be a rock star… I might prevail… I usually do.”
Ratner is currently working on further spoiling the Beverly Hills Cop series with a fourth entry and making a film adaptation of the God of War game franchise.
In today’s silly movies news, Brett Ratner, the guy behind Rush Hour and Red Dragon, has revealed that he wants to make a movie based on the plastic guitar swinging video game Guitar Hero.
Ratner, speaking to MTV News, said, “I would love to do a Guitar Hero movie, if Activision would ever let me. I’m trying to convince them.”
And what exactly would the plot be? Some kid wanting to become a rock star and does so South Park-style by swinging a plastic axe? "It could be about a kid from a small town who dreams of being a rock star and he wins the Guitar Hero competition."
Holy shit, I was right!
Rattner is currently attached to direct the videogame film adaptation of God of War.