Man I just don’t know what to make of this one. The Informers seems to have the potential to be pretty special… but it’s got a lot of cheese in there too that I’m not too thrilled about. Here.s the low down:
Brandon Routh, Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger and Ashley Olsen (as a “sexually promiscuous girl”) have all signed on for The Informers. The folks at Yahoo News give us this description:
Set in 1980s Los Angeles, the script follows seven stories taking course during a week in the life of a movie executive, his wife, his mistress, a rock star, a vampire and a kidnapper. Thornton will play the movie executive, and Basinger his wife. “Superman” star Brandon Routh has been cast as the vampire, while Ashley Olsen will play a sexually promiscuous girl.
Ok, WHAT? A movie executive and a VAMPIRE? Did I read that right? So does that mean Routh will play a guy whe THINKS he’s a vampire, wears black all the time and has filed his teeth into points… or does that actually mean Routh will be an actual immortal night walker? cause how you answer that question will DRASTICALLY influence how you read this news. The book notes describe the Routh character as: “Jamie, a vampire who lures teenagers home from trendy clubs and murders them in sadistic scenes reminiscent of American Psycho”. Soooo… a REAL Vampire? A wannabe?
I used to love Billy Bob Thornton… but man, in the last few years he’s made a career out of pumping out shit just for the pay cheque. Have you seen the trailers for Mr. Woodcock? The Astronaut Farmer, School for Scoundrels, Bad News Bears… and we’ll give him a pass for Ice harvest.
So this is an interesting sounding idea for a film… and certainly an interesting cast…. but a VAMPIRE?!?!
