- Title: USA: Russell Crowe tackles The Next Three Days
- Date: 17th November 2010
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 16, 2010) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) RUSSELL CROWE POSING FOR PHOTOS PAN ALONG RED CARPET PULL OUT FROM POSTER TO PAUL HAGGIS ACTRESS MORAN ATIAS ON THE RED CARPET RUSSELL CROWE POSING FOR PHOTOS CHRISTOPHER MCDONALD ON THE RED CARPET PAUL HAGGIS GREETING ON THE RED CARPET RUSSELL CROWE WITH PAN TO ACTRESS NAZANIN BONIADI (SOUNDBITE) (English) RUSSELL CROWE ON THE SCRIPT, SAYING: "Sometimes dialogue is a bit of a crutch. You can spend alot of time talking in a scene and not get to the point of it. The key thing is the character like this is the internal journey, what is driving him on to do what he is thinking of doing, you know." (SOUNDBITE) (English) WRITER/DIRECTOR PAUL HAGGIS SAYING: "I don't like to think about actors when I am writing, I do think you do them a disservice, because you start writing for what they have done before. But, as soon as I finished he was on the top of my short list." RUSSELL CROWE ON THE SCRIPT, SAYING: "It was great journey to read as a script and I was very interested immediately after reading to get involved in it." RUSSELL WITH TY SIMPKINS ON THE RED CARPET
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- Story Text: Russell Crowe joined writer/director Paul Haggis on the red carpet Tuesday night (November 17) for the Los Angeles premiere of the new thriller, 'The Next Three Days'.
The latest work from the Oscar winning 'Crash' director cast Crowe as John Brennan, a mild-mannered college professor. His perfect life is turned inside out after his wife Lara, played by actress Elizabeth Banks, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
Crowe had nothing for praise for the 'Three Days' script Haggis crafted out of a remake of the 2008 French film 'Pour Elle'.
"Sometimes dialogue is a bit of a crutch," explained Crowe. "You can spend alot of time talking in a scene and not get to the point of it. The key thing is the character like this is the internal journey, what is driving him on to do what he is thinking of doing, you know."
For Haggis, the intense actor was his first choice to take on the role.
"I don't like to think about actors when I am writing, I do think you do them a disservice because you start writing for what they have done before. But, as soon as I finished he was on the top of my short list," said Haggis.
'The Next Three Days' opens on Friday (November 19). - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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