One of the many projects that David O. Russell's attached himself to and then detached himself from over the past several years is 2 Guns, an adaptation of a graphic novel by Steven Grant. He originally had Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in mind for the lead roles, as two undercover federal agents who don't…
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2 Guns obviously isn't a thriller, because it gives up the basic mystery right off the bat: apparent bank robbers Bobby (Denzel Washington) and Marcus (Mark Wahlberg) are really undercover agents, each of which doesn't realize the other is also a lawman. Forced to team up after being disavowed in the wake of a messy operation,…
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Three Universal Pictures comic book adaptations are getting shifted around the release schedule. R.I.P.D. will still be released on July 19, but now it's officially in 3D. Kick-Ass 2 moves back from June 28 to August 16 2 Guns moves up from August 16 to August 2. Read the latest plot descriptions for each below. R.I.P.D. Academy…
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Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington have each done their fair share of action thrillers, but they're only now teaming up for the first time in 2 Guns. Directed by Baltasar Kormakur based on the graphic novel by Steven Grant, the film follows a DEA agent and an undercover naval intelligence agent who are investigating each other. An…
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2013 won't even start for another four months, and Universal's already shaking it up. The studio just announced a slew of scheduling changes for next year, some minor and some not so minor. The most significant shift is the one for Carl Erik Rinsch's 47 Ronin, which you may recall was originally scheduled to open…
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Mark Wahlberg's 2 Guns might have just gotten a huge boost in the person of Denzel Washington. Deadline reports the Oscar-winner, whose latest action film Safe House opens this week, is in talks to join the Baltasar Kormakur-directed film, based on a graphic novel by Steven Grant. 2 Guns sounds like a cousin of The…
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Briefly: The film 2 Guns is one of the most recent films to line up Mark Wahlberg as a lead actor. The movie is about two undercover law officers who end up investigating each other, with each failing to realize that the other is a lawman. There was a point when Owen Wilson and Vince…
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Let's quickly trace the evolution of 2 Guns, which is intended as an action film in which two undercover law officers end up investigating each other, both failing to realize that the other is a lawman, with mob money and the CIA wrapped up in the tale. 2 Guns is based on a comic written…
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Briefly: Is the success of The Fighter going to lead to a packed film slate for David O. Russell? I hope so, and there are probably some that hope the success of the film will mean he won't direct Uncharted, with Mark Wahlberg playing the lead character Drake. But I don't really want to reopen…
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Their chemistry in the 2005 film Wedding Crashers helped make it a smash hit and now, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson might reteam for 2 Guns, an action comedy about two lawmen assigned to rob a bank together, neither realizing they're both actually good guys undercover. The script was written by Blake Masters, the man…
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