The merry-go-round of people coming and going from the upcoming thriller, The Tourist, continues with news that director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the German director of Dobermann and the Oscar-winning The Lives Of Others, is now back on board.
The shenanigans on the film really have got ridiculous, with Tom Cruise initially eyeing a role before dropping out (instead making the similarly themed but more comic Knight & Day). Then Charlize Theron and Sam Worthington signed up, but both have since left. At the same time as Theron went, director Bharat Nalluri also bailed. Not long after that Angelina Jolie was drafted into the film, with von Donnersmarck being wooed as the director. However he left the movie last autumn (citing creative differences), around the same time that Johnny Depp started to take an interest in the movie, but now he’s returned. Got all that?
Hopefully this is the final talent shift for the film, which had better be good following all the problems they’ve had putting it together. The Tourist, a remake of the 2005 French thriller, Anthony Zimmer, is about Jolie’s Interpol agent, who draws an unwitting tourist, played by Depp, into her attempt to locate a criminal who was once her lover.
Shooting on the film is due to commense this spring.