Of course, the most reliable way to put a rapper in a movie is to make him an action hero.
Then, Berg recalled hearing, "the head of Universal got to page 3 of the script and said, 'This is about a book editor?' " Thirty-eight years later, "Genius" — which makes Perkins an action hero who wields his red pencil like a scimitar — has just opened, at last.
We had to take the bold step of saying, 'How do we make this guy an action hero?' " The Dante's Inferno game, which Electronic Arts is releasing for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles on Feb. 9, is its own epic undertaking: an unapologetic attempt to build an entertainment franchise around a 700-year-old literary masterpiece.
In fact the suggestion that he would make a great action hero is not taken as a compliment.
IT takes sinew and plenty of smarts to make a female action hero, and if you are among the new breed of wonder women dispatching baddies at the multiplex these days, it takes an industrial-strength wardrobe to die for.
In reality, no one knows who led or participated in the storming of the cockpit, though one man, Todd Beamer, was overheard by a telephone operator saying, "Let's roll!" The film makes him something like an action hero.
She also grew up where there were no guns, but learned to love how they made her feel like "an action hero in her own life".
I'm a European who became an American leader; a Republican who loves Democrats; a businessman who makes his living as an action hero; a tremendously disciplined superachiever who hasn't always been disciplined enough; a fitness expert who loves cigars; an environmentalist who loves Hummers; a fun-loving guy with kid-like enthusiasm who is most famous for terminating people".
Lionel Wigram, who conceived the story and is also a producer of the film, said that reinventing Holmes as an action hero made perfect sense.
