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Statham Pushing For The Grabbers
Jason 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.
Have you seen treasure of the sierra madre doug?
It’s one of the greatest films ever made.
P.T. Anderson mentioned many times that he watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre religiously while writing There Will Be Blood.
@ George No I have not, I certainly will upon your recommendation.
@ John – If that is the case then I definitely need to see the film that served as inspiration to TWBB. I loved TWBB.
I wasn’t aware he had said that but when I saw twbb I knew he had to be a fan of it. It has the same spirit.
I agree with George, Doug. Treasure of the Sierra Madre is an amazing story about greed and how if affects people. And Bogie is simply awesome. I’m pretty sure you can find it on YouTube Doug if you want a quick watch-through.