Gandolfini to star in The Taking of Pelham 123
James Gandolfini will be adding another dance to his card as he makes a deal to star in The Taking of Pelham 123 alongside
Gandolfini will play the mayor of New York City in Columbia Pictures remake “The Taking of Pelham 123,” directed by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta.Gandolfini will plays a pol under incredible pressure to end a crisis when a packed subway car is ransomed by a criminal (Travolta) and his gang.
James Gandolfini will forever be recognised as Tony Soprano from HBOs hit series of the same surname. But so he seems to have dodged a bullet as far as being typecast as a gangster. The casting rumours about Gandolfini playing a gangster in Batman: The Dark Knight never came to pass either.
I half qualify his role as a politician to the typecast he hoped to avoid. No, I don’t thinkg politicians are criminals. But the role of a city’s leader would have the same qualities that made his Tony Soprano so believable. He is a respected leader with charisma and presence. Decisions that affect the lives of many will be falling on his shoulders.
So is this typecasting? or just dangerously close?
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
Bret
Im sick of Denzel in Tony Scott movies.
Mar 25th, 2008
Justin Levine
I fail to imagine what a remake of this film could offer. And Travolta as one of the train hijackers?? I presume he is playing the role the Robert Shaw created. That spells disaster. He will be as bad in this as he was in Punisher. (Denzel might be good in the Walter Matthau role, but I suspect it would just be a retread of what he already showed us with Inside Man.)
Mar 25th, 2008
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