Benedict Cumberbatch is popular right now. I mean really popular. Hey everyone! Come see how popular Benedict Cumberbatch is!
It's hard to argue with the actor's success right now. He had an amazing turn as Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness, he has a hit show in Britain with "Sherlock", he's got the wikilinks movie The Fifth Estate coming up, AND he's going to be voicing the grand daddy of all dragons, Smaug, in December's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Yep he's a hot commodity and not surprisingly the offers are coming in fast and furious, two in particular. The first comes courtesy of "Film Chronicles" and "Badass Digest" which report from a "trusted source" that Cumberbatch is in talks to play a villain in the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII, almost certainly a Sith. Furthermore, the source states the character will be present throughout the entire new trilogy and Cumberbatch's involvement is the reason he had to drop out of Guillermo Del Toro's Crimson Peak.
The second film is about as far from Star Wars as you can get. According to "Deadline" Cumberbatch is in talks to star in director James Gray's The Lost City of Z. I know what you might be thinking but no, it is not another zombie movie. The film is actually based on the book by David Grann. It chronicles the exploits of explorer Percy Fawcett (who Cumberbatch would play). In 1925 Fawcett entered the Amazon and supposedly found a mysterious lost city. However, his peers claimed the whole thing was a hoax so he returned to the Amazon with his son and a friend...and disappeared.
Sounds intriguing. I'm game. And as for Cumberbatch as a Sith Lord? Um yes please.
Cumberbatch can next be seen in 12 Years A Slave on October 17th and The Fifth Estate on October 18th.
Lost City of Z would be a sweet movie. I still have to read the book but from what I know of the story it's got all the pieces of a great film
ReplyDeleteAgreed. And I love cumberbatch.
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