William Hurt is going from brutal crime boss to president of the United States. Which, if you look at it satirically, really isn’t all that different. Slipping off the Daily Show goggles for a moment, we can report that A History Of Violence's Hurt will be playing the pres in Pete Travis’ previously announced Vantage Point.
Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox are already aboard the Barry Levy-penned thriller, which takes a Rashomon, multiple-viewpoint style to the story of an attempt on the president’s life.
Sony will obviously be hoping that the film performs a little better than the decidedly average launch of Michael Douglas-starrer The Sentinel.