Mickey Rourke To Gee Up For Broken Horses
The Gangster filmBroken Horsesis to be the American film debut ofVidhu Vinod Chopra, and Indian director who certainly likes to plan ahead. His official site lists no less than five films. Okay, Rodriguez and Del Toro style, his slate is full of many projects he only intends to produce, not direct, but it sounds to me like he has a different pie for every finger.
Here’s the official blurb fromChopra’s siteand, after the break, more info and the pre-shoot publicity poster.
Vinod Chopra’s Broken Horses, with a screenplay based on an original story by Chopra himself, is the work of award-winning writer Abhijat Joshi (Lage Raho Munnabhai, Eklavya and 64 Squares) and script consultant Jason Richman (Bangkok Dangerous, Swing Vote). The film is in pre-production and will go on the floors later this year.
Yahoo Movies Indiagoes one step further by letting us knowMickey Rourkehas signed up for “one of the key roles”. Not sure how wise a move this is on Rourke’s part – though maybe I’m just being prejudiced against the gangster genre. So few gangster films have ever really done it for me, perhaps half a dozen or so (one and a halfGodfathers included). I’ll also cynically note that Rourke finalized the deal before winning his so very well deserved Golden Globe forThe Wrestler.Broken Horses' finance comes courtesy of the Mumbai-based Reliance Big Pictures, subsidiary of the massive corporation Reliance Entertainment that recently bought Dreamworks out of their Paramount handcuffs.
I enjoyed screenwriter Abhijat Joshi’sLage Raho Munnabhaia fair bit, but that was knock-about stuff, with songs and Ghandi’s ghost and contrived romance. Something entirely different to a West-friendly gangster narrative. Not the greatest Bollywood film I ever saw, but far from the worst.
Additional trivia: theBroken Horsesstoryboard artist will be Chris Buchinsky, who worked onSpider-Man 2andHancock.
