Well this is an interesting match up. You take Bruce Willis, the man best known for his hardcore action persona, give him a role as a doctor with psychic abilities up against a serial killer with the same, and then the director you pick is Shekhar Kapur, the man best known for…ELIZABETH?
You know, the period piece that made Cate Blanchett a star.
I gotta say this might be awesome! I love it when the directors take on genre work. One, because it brings respect to what we love. Two, because it often illustrates how difficult genre work is to pull off. They say comedy is hard, but just try giving an audience legit scares and see how well it fares. Tough stuff.
So good luck to Kapur, Willis and whomever else jumps on this ride. For now we won’t give them too hard a time about the troubling similarities to