‘Lost City Of D’ Cast Now Includes Daniel Radcliffe As The Villain
Lost City of Dhas found its villain:Daniel Radcliffe. TheHarry Potterstar joins leadsSandra BullockandChanning Tatumin an adventure rom-com that’s being compared toRomancing the Stone.Patti HarrisonandDa’Vine Joy Randolphare also part of the cast, withAdam and Aaron Needirecting a script fromDana FoxandOren Uziel.
Deadline broke the news that Daniel Radcliffe has joined theLost City of Dcast as the film’s villain. While the title makes one think of the great, underseen filmThe Lost City of Z, this rom-com is aiming instead to make one wistful for the days ofRomancing the Stone. TheLost City of Dstory follows “a reclusive romance novelist (Sandra Bullock) who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model (Channing Tatum) until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and more romantic, than any of her paperback fictions.”
Like I said: this storyline isverysimilar toRomancing the Stone, the Robert Zemeckis movie about a romance novelist who ends up in the middle of a dangerous adventure in the jungle. The key difference is thatStonehad the novelist working with, and falling for, a rogueish mercenary, whereas here the romance novelist is teaming-up with her cover model. Still, it’ssosimilar that I’m wondering if someone, somewhere, is going to end up taking this project to court for plagiarism.
In any case, it’s nice to see Radcliffe continue to take interesting, unconventional parts. He probably could’ve hunkered down into more generic leading man roles afterHarry Potter, but instead, he’s leaned into quirkier things, like playing a farting corpse inSwiss Army Manand playing a gun with guns literally nailed into his hands inGuns Akimbo(side-note:Guns Akimbois kind of a crappy movie, but Radcliffe really commits and gives it his all, and for that, I applaud him).
Adam and Aaron Nee, who directed the surprisingly fun modern-day take on Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn calledBand of Robbersand who are attached to direct theMasters of the Universereboot, are helmingLost City of D. They’re also working on a new production draft of the script with Dana Fox. The script is currently credited to Fox and Oren Uziel. In addition to starring, Bullock is also producing the pic.
