If Good Luck Chuck is the one film at Comic Con that I’m looking forward to the least… then it would probably have to be said that 3:10 To Yuma is the one I’m looking forward to the most. This project just looks like pure gold. It’s being directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line, Cop Land, Girl Interrupted) which is reason enough to be excited… but it also has 2 of the best actors today in it as your hero and villain, Christian Bale and Russell Crowe.
This was also my first big let down of Comic Con. None of the three listed above were there. Come on! If you’re going to try to showcase your film at an event like Comic Con… at LEAST get 1 of the big 3 to show up to the event! It’s a shame they weren’t there.
In their place were 2 other actors from the film (who are no slouches themselves). Peter Fonda and Ben Foster (Angel from X-Men 3). As good as both of these guys look in the movie (and trust me… they both look fantastic), neither of them are very interesting interviews. Most of the panel time was awkward… although Foster did tell some pretty interesting stories about how Crowe took all the cast to Cowboy camp so they could learn to ride and shoot.
They showed a couple of clips from the movie that deliver EVERYTHING I’ve been hoping this movie would give us. In one of the clips, Foster (who is the second in command of Crowe’s gang, and in charge after Crowe gets captured and is now trying to find and rescue him) burns a man alive in order to get information on where the law is keeping Crowe. The guy displays so much intensity it’s hard to believe he’s such a little guy.
Not much about the movie itself was talked about. Mostly chat about westerns in general… how cold it was when they shot the film… the tricks they learned on keeping their hands warm when doing shoot out scenes… but nothing about the movie itself. That combined with the lack of the 3 main dudes… left me kind of bored throught the whole 3:10 to Yuma presentation. Oh well… that movie is still going to be amazing.
