Is Worthington the next Sean Connery? As long as he’s not in the next League of Extraordinary Gentleman, I can get behind this. [Heat Vision via First Showing]
Dreamworks has the former Na’vi leading their re-imagining of the adventurer’s H. Rider Haggard’s 1885 novel King Solomon’s Mines. Instead of exploring Africa in search of a missing person (as was the plot of Haggard’s novel) Worthington’s Quatermain will be exploring planets. Maybe he’ll clash with titans while exploring Pandora?
The Quatermain character was first played by Hal Lawrence in 1919 and most recently by the late Patrick Swayze and Sean Cameron Mitchel in television and straight-to-video fare.
He’s a literary hero deserving of a good film, or, at least, a successful one. Worthington has led both.
The young actor is currently shooting The Fields, directed by Michael Mann’s daughter, Ami Canaan Mann.
Do you like Worthington as an actor? Is he a movie star or just the star of big movies?