Gerard Butler Will Be ‘Playing The Field’ With Uma Thurman And Jessica Biel
By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2011 5:00 am EST
Variety broke the news of this film, which is being developed by Nu Image/Millennium Films. Butler will also produce along with Jonathan Mostow and others.
Though I joked about Butler’s recent penchant toward romantic comedy, if you look at his body of work as a whole, he’s actually doing a pretty good job of balancing those movies with more male oriented films. For example, after The Ugly Truth and The Bounty Hunter, he did Law Abiding Citizen and Gamer - which were terrible, but certainly male oriented. And up next he’ll sort of split the difference with Machine Gun Preacher, the tale of a ex-con turned preacher who becomes an activist in Africa and Coriolanus, a modern retelling of a Shakespeare play directed by Ralph Fiennes. Not to mention a slew of other movies he’s attached to.
Back to Playing the Field, the star seems perfectly cast as a former soccer pro thanks to his Scottish roots and Biel and Thurman are both talented and beautiful women. I’m sure they’ll all do quite well. The wild cards are Muccino, whose last American film was the abysmal Seven Pounds and Fox, who hasn’t written a movie is almost two decades. I guess we’ll see how it all turns out.
Are you a fan of this scenario coupled with these actors? And were you as disappointed as I was when you realized this “soccer comedy” has nothing in common with Ladybugs or The Big Green except soccer?
