Canadian critic nominates ‘Breaking Bad’ actor to star in ‘On The Job’ Hollywood remakeInterAksyon.com · Wednesday, October 2, 2013 · 3:02 pm
Bryan Cranston as Walter White in 'Breaking Bad' and Joel Torre as Tatang in 'On The Job'.
A planned Hollywood remake of “On The Job” was announced as early as April even before it wowed critics during its world premiere at the Directors Fortnight section of the 66th Cannes International Film Festival.
The current North American theatrical release of “On The Job” has only fanned the flames for the Hollywood version. On Tuesday, one Canadian critic, Chris Bumbray of Joblo.com, nominated “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston to play Tatang, the lead role of the veteran hitman essayed so brilliantly by Joel Torre.
“This would be a great role for someone like Bryan Cranston in an American redux — which apparently is already on the books,” wrote Bumbray, who found both Torre and co-star Gerald Anderson “terrific” in their roles as prison inmates who get day passes to carry out assassinations for a crime syndicate run by military men and politicians in cahoots with prison officials.
Cranston won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series three consecutive times for his role as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher turned drug manufacturer and kingpin, in the acclaimed series “Breaking Bad”.
XYZ Films, a Los-Angeles based production company, has obtained the “On The Job” story rights and assigned the project to Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur.
Anderson, who plays the other lead role of assassin-in-training, dropped the names of Hollywood heavyweights Tom Cruise and Mark Wahlberg (star of two Kormakur movies, “Contraband” and “2 Guns”) as potential lead actors in an interview with local media in June.
http://www.interaksyon.com/entertainment/canadian-critic-nominates-breaking-bad-actor-to-star-in-on-the-job-hollywood-remake/