Dwayne ‘Don’t Call Me The Rock’ Johnson’s revenge thriller, Faster, has found itself a new director: George ‘Don’t Call Me The Rock Either’ Tillman Jr.
Tillman, who last directed the Notorious B.I.G. biopic, Notorious, is currently in talks to replace Phil Joanou at the helm of the movie, which will star Johnson as an ex-con avenging the murder of his brother. Joanou dropped out a couple of months ago – and with production due to start early next year, the need to install a new director was growing by the day.
It’ll be Tillman’s first crack at an action movie proper – he directed Men Of Honour, that awful Cuba Gooding Jr./Robert De Niro movie back in 2000, but we’re sure he’d prefer it if we all just forgot that – and while he may not be a typical choice to helm a revenge flick, neither was Joanou. So this one is going to be interesting, to say the least.
But it should be fun to see The Rock – sorry, The Dwayne – returning to what sounds like an R-rated action thriller… in essence, the sort of movie we thought he had jettisoned in favour of powder-puff kids’ flicks.
Joe and Tony Gayton wrote the script for the movie, which will be funded by CBS Films.