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Russell saves the “State of Play”

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

russell_crowe.jpgImagine that you are a movie director and Brad Pitt leaves your project. You are without a leading man for the movie and you are supposed to begin filming in a month. Who would you try to woo at the 11th hour? If you were Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) the answer would be Russell Crowe!

Shortly before the American Thanksgiving holiday Pitt departed Macdonald’s new film “State of Play” citing problems with the movie’s screenplay that couldn’t be corrected due to Hollywood’s writers strike. With the clock ticking Macdonald quickly made a phone call and hopped on a plane to race off to Australia for a hastily convened meeting with Crowe. It seems to have worked because now Crowe is the new leading man for the film. The “Gladiator” star will play a political consultant working for a major newspaper that stumbles across clues linking a fast-rising politician (Edward Norton) to a murder investigation.

Crowe will begin working on “State of Play” after the New Year. He will need to be done working on that film by March at the latest when he is slated to play the Sheriff of “Nottingham”.

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