Statham Pushing For The Grabbers

Statham1Jason Statham recently talked to Empire Online about a film he’ s trying to have made. We get the scoop and following interview excerpt from our friends at comingsoon:

“We’ve got a movie we’re trying to do, written by David and Janet Peoples, in the vein of an old film, ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,’ Statham said. John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra (1948) starred Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston as gold diggers who become contaminated by greed.

“It’s not a remake or anything,” clarified Statham, “But it’s a little bit like that – about relationships and how greed contaminates the relationships these three people have. The working title is ‘The Grabbers.'”

There Will Be Blood was an excellent film about the twisting effects of greed. The film starts with gold, but soon moves to oil as the money making product of choice. I am all for tales about poisonous greed; the world around us is rife with problems because of it. We could use more parables, proverbs and fables about the subject.

Comparisons to TWBB will haunt this picture, and getting out from under it ‘s shadow will be no easy task. If however, they are able to make a quality film that tells its own story, nay-sayers will close their lips and comparisons will taper off. Aesop had many fables that taught the same lesson, and so here I welcome another take of the dangers of greed.

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