What is the last film role of James Caan, who died on July 7, 2022, at the age of 82? The actor had recently toured with Pierce Brosnan, under the direction of Philip Noyce.
At the end of his career, between several more discreet releases, in theaters or on platforms, James Caan, who died on July 7 at the age of 82, collaborated twice with French filmmakers: Guillaume Canet for his thriller Blood Ties (2013), and Amanda Sthers on the drama The Holy Lands (2019).
Among the minor productions, there is one still unpublished in France, under the title Queen Bees (also known as At Last), with Ellen Burstyn, Jane Curtin, Loretta Devine. This film, released in June 2021 in the United States, follows a woman refusing to enter a retirement home. Her life is going to change when she meets a group of ladies who can’t be counted, as well as an attractive widower, played by James Caan.
A completely new film has yet to be dated in France and around the world. James Caan indeed holds one of the main roles of Fast Charlie, directed by Philip Noyce (War Games, White Calm).
Charlie Swift (Pierce Brosnan) has worked for Stan, an aging mob boss, for twenty years as both a handyman and hitman. When a rival boss seeks to eliminate Stan and his entire team, Charlie fails to save his boss’s life. Now alone, Charlie will stop at nothing to avenge his friend, and has no intention of leaving anyone alive…
Fast Charlie is adapted from the book Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler. In the casting, James Caan gives the reply to the ex-James Bond Pierce Brosnan, and Morena Baccarin (Homeland). The Wrap confirms that James Caan was able to shoot all the scenes planned for this film.
Note that James Caan was to appear in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis project, carried by the American filmmaker for many years, but filming has not started, his role will have to be recast.
The story of Megalopolis is set in a New York City trying to rebuild itself after being devastated by a cataclysm. A reconstruction carried out by an architect who is trying to (re)build a small utopian city called “Cityworld”, in the heart of New York…
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According to IMDB, the actor had also been announced on André Gordon’s films Acre Beyond the Rye, starring Lacey Chabert, and Tom Burruss’ Redemption, but neither of these two films have, it seems, yet. been shot.