If it feels like Brendan Fraser is suddenly everywhere, that’s because he is. After being relatively low-profile for a couple years he is about to be in several films: he’s shooting the Belfast-based heist comedy Whole Lotta Sole right now, will soon shoot Gimme Shelter (playing against type as a less than accepting father) and now has two new roles.
He’ll be in the ‘sweeping epic historical drama’ Four Kings (not a sequel to Three Kings, fortunately) that will shoot late this summer in Toronto with Damien Lee directing. And he’ll play the title role in William Tell 3D (ok, not so exciting) from director Nick Hurran, a Doctor Who vet. More info on both new films is after the break.
Deadline broke word of Four Kings yesterday, saying that it will be “set against the French and Indian War that essentially divided North America,” with Brendan Fraser playing ” Colonel Lord Francis Nicholson, a vastly wealthy Brit who self-finances the war in the hope of creating a utopian society in what is now Canada.”
And then a press release announces that William Tell 3D will shoot this summer in Romania and Switzerland based on a script by Scott Reynolds. Another fairy tale sorta thing? Sigh, why not? At least this one is trying to throw in some historical background. The producers are trying to land Anna Paquin and Til Schweiger as well, and announce the core of the story:
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