Here’s an interesting little piece of industry gossip. According to multiple outlets, Daniel Craig abruptly pulled out of the film The Whole Truth this week. The Whole Truth was scheduled to begin filming on April 14th – next week. Daniel was in Boston (where the movie was going to be filmed on location) this past weekend, so this is really sudden and it looks… bad.
At the 11th hour, Daniel Craig has dropped out of courtroom drama The Whole Truth, multiple sources confirm to THR. The project, scheduled to be in production in Boston April 14, has been brought to halt as the producers, Atlas Entertainment and Likely Story, scramble to find a replacement. Sources say Craig exited the film on Sunday.
One insider said that the start date is being pushed three weeks to accommodate finding a new actor. The movie was in the midst of casting up and now certain actors who were in negotiations, such as Danny Huston, are finding themselves in limbo.
Renee Zellweger and Gabriel Basso were already signed on to co-star.
The plot of the courtroom drama is being kept under wraps, but Craig was to play a district attorney. Courtney Hunt (Frozen River) is set to direct the Nicholas Kazan-written script. Atlas Entertainment’s Richard Suckle is producing.
The high-profile independent project was announced during the Berlin Film Festival in February, where FilmNation shopped the film to foreign buyers. CAA is handling domestic rights. The Boston Globe first reported the news of Craig’s departure.
You can read the first report from The Boston Globe here. The only other details the Globe had were that Daniel pulled out on Monday, and that previously Daniel had been seen at the Boston Four Seasons on Sunday and at the Suffolk County Superior Court last week.
It was also on Monday night that Daniel was in NYC with his wife Rachel Weisz on the red carpet for the 7th Annual Night of Opportunity Gala. Reportedly, Daniel and Rachel were lovely together at the event and they made an effort to sit and interact with the regular people. When I was writing that story up yesterday, I did Google Daniel and Rachel, and she’s due to begin filming a dystopian film in Ireland with Colin Farrell very soon too. Could it be that Daniel didn’t want to be apart from his wife? Could it be that he didn’t want to leave her alone with Colin Farrell?
Other theories: Daniel is terrible at American accents, and he came to realize that it was a fool’s errand to attempt a Boston accent, so that’s why he pulled out. Or maybe he got a good look at Renee Zellweger’s new face.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
His plastic surgery scars have not healed yet.
He’s my favourite Bond (so far …), so it pains me to say this, but … I agree with you. His face is looking just a little too fresh and new, and not the craggy and natural visage we’re used to seeing. 🙁
I agree but damn he makes my man-bits tingle (way tmi, but he’s always been my number one celeb crush forever and ever amen)
Does that smooth face remind anyone else of Odo off Deep Space Nine?
WHAT smooth face? Are we looking at the same pics?
Seriously though, could someone post before&after pics? I’m not seeing it
Ok, got it. It;s his naso-labial folds right? Possibly sth around his jawline as well.
new pic
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4 months ago
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Just cut your hair, man…
ahh…please for the love of all that’s holy…I hope they don’t try to do a Boston accent. Not everyone here speaks that way!!
Everyone? No. Not even half. But those that do… it can be even thicker and tougher to understand then the way it can be over portrayed.
(Not saying that about other folks – talking about myself. Grew up in Boston as well as Kingston and Plymouth and things got seriously weird for me. Spent my school year up North and the summers being farmed out to family down in Georgia & Louisiana, it’s safe to say my accent was/is… weird. And if I get upset even now years later, my accent will slide all over the place and the only way I notice eventually is either someone starts to laugh or my husband looks at me intently, cocks his head and asks sweetly “Honey, do me a favor, tell me again how your dad used to walk the dog in Harvard Yard?” – a phrase designed to stretch a mouth to its limits in a Boston accent!) He could actually have a better shot at doing white collar Boston, it has some of the same clipped sounds you get in Scottish & British accents, and a few of the same twists as well. But if they had tried to make him sound like a Southie? Oh no. Just… no. Please anything but that. That’s one of those accents best left to the pros. Who were born there. And never leave. Not for just someone trying to feel it out as an actor.
I love Plymouth! – I have an aunt and uncle there. I’m a Btree girl myself…
Torture, isn’t it? What really gets me is that some of the worst ones have won Oscars (Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting, Tim Robbins in Mystic River, Sean Penn in Mystic River, Melissa Leo in The Fighter). They came up for a silly excuse for why DiCaprio couldn’t do it in The Departed – sorry, but people in Beverly don’t sound all that different from people in Southie, it’s a class issue more than a location one. Christian Bale in The Fighter and Amy Ryan in Gone, Baby, Gone were among the better ones. Although it occurred to me that people in other states must cringe when they hear our locals butcher their accents – Mark Wahlberg claiming to be a Texan in Lone Survivor and then following that statement up with the line about “that’s not a knife, that’s a f’ing duck” in the tones of a pure DotRat.
I get my fill of Baaahhh-stin accents and I live in FL which is where all of the older ones end up.
They also make Dolphins games hell. The things I’ve been called and the grown men that have taken a swing at me for the jersey I’m wearing and the beers that have been wasted dumped on me. GG.
But sh*tty of Craig. I hope nothing is too serious that he *has* to leave but I hope he has a darn good reason.
What jersey are you wearing that gets Boston transplants so riled up? If a person takes ANY team or game so seriously that they take a swing at someone, they need to either go to jail or court ordered anger management. Wow.
I’m at a Dolphins game wearing my Dan Marino jersey and half the Patriots fans there can’t name a QB before Bledsoe. I never trash talk (I play football, I’m a lineman, it’s just not in my nature) so I am not being hyperbolic when I say it’s always started by them. Even when I walk away, they follow me but I’m short and female and OBVIOUSLY know nothing about football so why am I even there.
I know there’s a few arse hats in every fan base (every rowdy Dolphins fan is usually shouted down with the statement, “Hey! We aren’t Jets fans! Act like you’ve got some class!”) but sweet babies, Patriots fans are the most vitriolic fan base I’ve ever had to experience in public.
I would really hope it’s not because he wanted to spend time with his wife – that’s a terrible reason to endanger someone’s film and a lot of people’s livelihoods.
Unless I hear otherwise, I’m going to assume there were problems with the script or the production, or that there were some sort of creative differences.
Maybe did he have an argument with the director or one of the producer? Or finally he read the script?
I think it’s probably because this movie and the new Bond movie would overlap in filming. I could be wrong though.
Is it just me or do they both look very plastic and fake? Especially from Rachel, she almost seems to be forcing her self to be there etc and be nice.
They are my favorite couple but there’s been a few blinds about tension between them while working on their play. Hopefully theres nothing to see here.
The blinds are more about tension.It’s about cheating,huge flights and not leaving together
Recently I saw an old PBS “Inspector Morse” episode, “Twilight of the Gods,” with Rachel at age 23. She was unrecognizable and clearly had some early cosmetic surgery.
Looking more like Salma Hayek’s husband everyday.