Oldman vs. Denzel

By Dave Davis

Posted 17 years ago

While it’s nice to see him occasionally on the side of the angels, Gary Oldman is at his goddamn best doing scenery-chewing evil.

Oldman is slipping into his villain britches for THE BOOK OF ELI, a Western-flavored post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick from the long-absent Hughes Brothers (DEAD PRESIDENTS, FROM HELL). The movie, from writer Gary Whitta, stars Denzel Washington as the hero tasked with protecting a sacred book that could save the tattered remnants of humanity.

Unsurprisingly, the more interesting role may belong to Oldman, who’ll play “the despot of a small makeshift town deficient of standard necessities, services, and most noticeably, laws.” Sounds perfect for gnawing the landscape!

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