Old Timers Gets Ready To Roll

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24249

According to Forbes, Sidney Kimmel is one of the world’s richest men, with a net worth of $1.1 billion (that’s about, at a rough guess, about $1.1 billion more than Empire’s gross worth, although only a billion more than the budget of Lizard In A Blizzard).


And today, through his production company Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, he shelled out some of his hard-earned on a spec script by playwright Noah Haidle, entitled Old Timers. And we can’t say we blame him – this one sounds very promising.


The film will revolve around two conmen in their sixties who, after one of them becomes terminally ill, get their old crew together for a night of debauchery and criminal shenanigans.


So, it’s Ocean’s Eleven meets The Bucket List, then. And as pitches go, we’d buy that for a dollar. As long as Haidle, for whom this would be his first feature film, can keep a lid on the schmaltz, this should be worth watching, and could even become something of a magnet for older actors, like The Expendables for OAPs.


Any ideas for casting, readers? You know where to leave ‘em. In the meantime, we’re off to start busking outside Uncle Sidney’s office.

Oh there is some fun potential here. t:

 

[Heisenberg]

Could have great potential with the right cast. Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro ...as for the rest of the gang, Bill Murray, Alan Arkin and Michael Caine as the token Brit? Why not

 

[Eggyman]

I like the sound of this!

Some ideas on cast...

Dustin Hoffman, Robert Deniro, Gene Hackman, Roger Moore, and I'd love Steve Martin to be able to get some credit in his later years by playing a character that has humour (actual humour ) but doesn't strangle you with it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Save some room for Al, he needs a good role.

 

[Eggyman]

Pacino? Yes! We need some shouting in this film

 

[Doctor Jones]

Oh God yes this sounds incredible!

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Here are 5 cenario ideas tell me what you guys think.

1 Morgan Freeman, Sam Elliot, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones.

2 Harrison Ford, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Samuel L Jackson and Pierce Brosnan.

3 Jack Nickolson, Robert Deniro, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino and Ian McKellen.

4 Jack Nickolson, Harrison Ford, TommY Lee Jones, Dustin Hoffman and Clint Eastwood.

5 Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover, Samuel L Jackson, James Earl Jones and Lawrence Fishburn.