kevin costner and hailee steinfeld movie

McG ( Charlie's Angels, Terminator Salvation) has a firm grip on action, if not acting. The French police tell him simply that squatters have rights in France, and to boot them out would land Ethan in jail.Īnd that's one of Days' more believable twists. After blowing away a few henchmen, Ethan comes home to find a family of squatters has moved into his house and painted his bedroom a wacky yellow. It's hard to tell what director McG was going for here, because each moment of tension comes undone with a scene of banality. You'll get lost trying to keep track of the baddies, but just remember: If they're foreign, they're evil.

Yep.Įthan takes the job and begins an odyssey through the streets of Paris to track down ruthless Europeans of varied vague accents. She not only wants Ethan to finish the assignment, she also has a mystery drug that could cure his cancer if he agrees. The set-up is so rushed and pat that we barely have time to digest Days' next wrinkle: the beautiful operative Vivi Delay (Amber Heard). He learns he has brain cancer that's spread to his lungs and that he has three months to live.Įthan decides it's time to get to know his estranged wife Christine (Connie Nielsen) and teenage daughter Zoey (Hailee Steinfeld), who gets a happy birthday call once a year from Dad. The bust goes awry when Ethan, bearing down on his targets, gets dizzy and falls (it happens a lot). When we meet him, he's with a group of fellow super-spies tasked with bringing down a mysterious arms dealer, known as 'The Wolf,' and his henchman, 'The Albino.' The latter resembles Gollum if he left the Lord of the Rings set and swiped an Armani suit on the way out. But it's hardly enough to bring this spy flick in from the cold.Ĭostner plays Ethan Renner, a CIA operative good at making people dead and lousy at being a dad. The result is a convoluted mess that has one good twist and two good car chases. It does, however, seem to go on at least a day and a half.Ĭontrived and manic, Days (* 1/2 out of four rated PG-13 opens Friday nationwide) can't decide whether it's a thriller, comedy or feel-good family film. Jackson and Lawrence Fishburne passed on the movie, which follows a young black teen who spends Christmas with his estranged grandparents.Â Through his grandfatherâs Christmas Eve sermon and a stylized, dream-sequence retelling of the classic Nativity story, he learns about the importance of faith and family.Â According to Blackfilm, 'Whitaker is expected to play multiple characters during the Nativity sequence.'Â Angela Bassett will play the boy's grandmother, and Jennifer Hudson will play the mother.Â As a big fan of Lemmons' last film, Talk to Me, I'm glad that production is set to begin in January 2013.Hit the jump for casting news on McG's action film starring Kevin Costner.According to Deadline, True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld is set to star opposite Kevin Costner in an untitled action film directed by McG and produced/co-written by Luc Besson.Â The film (previously titled Three Days to Kill) centers on a dying secret service (Costner) agent who retires in order to reconnect with his family.Â The Secret Service offers him the chance to use an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment, and the agent finds himself 'trying to juggle his family, his mission, and the drugâs hallucinatory side-effects.'Â Steinfeld will play his estranged daughter.Steinfeld has been absent from theaters far too long since her amazing turn in True Grit, but she's set to return to the big screen in a big way next year.Â In 2013, she'll be seen in Can a Song Save Your Life, Romeo and Juliet, and Ender's Game.For Kevin Costner fans, the good news is that 3 Days To Kill doesn't feel like that.

We have a couple of quick casting stories for you this morning.Â First up, I'm pleased to report that Kasi Lemmons' gospel musical Black Nativity has finally found a lead actor by casting Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker.Â As we previously reported, both Samuel L.

Kevin costner and hailee steinfeld movie