That L.A.P.D. movie starring Forest Whitaker, Keanu Reeves and Chris Evans which before today we all knew as The Night Watchman, has gone through a name change and will now be known as Night Watch.
Fox Searchlight and New Regency obviously aren’t worried about the name clash and potential audience confusion with the Russian epic fantasy series Night Watch.
More news on this project, and House actor Hugh Laurie is the latest name to be added to the David Ayer directed cast with filming set to begin next month. Laurie will be playing an internal affairs officer, along with Evans whilst Reeves plays a cop who becomes an alcoholic and depressed drunk after his wife’s murder, and who is then accused of murdering her by his former cop mentor Forest Whitaker.
Ayer previously directed Harsh Times, which hopefully I will get chance to watch sometime this week.
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This movie’s worht seeing just for Forest Whittaker. Speakiong of which he and Denzel Washington are going to be filming “The Great Debaters” here in town soon. Can’t wait to see that either.
Yup, two movies that should turn out to be pretty good. It will be interesting to see what Denzel does with The Great Debaters.
His last movie Antwone Fisher went down quite well with people, but that was six years ago and he hasn’t returned to helming since. I believed it was because he didn’t enjoy being behind the camera, but that’s either untrue or he’s willing to give it a go again for this.