Even though the the gestating action thriller Motor City just gained a new villain after Adrien Brody replaced Gary Oldman, the film from Albert Hughes has had a lot of trouble casting the film. Names like Jake Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Renner and Dominic Cooper were linked to the lead role, but they all fell away from the project. Gerard Butler stuck with the project as it worked towards their production start date on September 17th, but now it appears the film is completely dead before the cameras started rolling. Deadline reports the film was still in pre-production, but the crew has been told to go home. So what is going on?
So now the film isn't moving forward. Producers stil want to make the film, but some work needs to be done in order to put it back together again. All the financiers still have to deal with the cast, crew and director following this unexpected hiccup, and there's no telling whether or not Warner Bros will still want to be involved once this debacle is sorted out. It's problems like this that have me frustrated with the studio system. Setting a release date often creates issues that force rushing of production, and put pressure on the cast, crew and filmmaker. Thankfully, the producers knew they wouldn't meet the release and halted production rather than rushing it. Hopefully we'll see this project revived sometime down the road.
its better then putting out a crap product.