Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Johnny Depp in the American remake of “Anthony Zimmer”.
Five years after the release of Anthony Zimmer by Jérôme Salle – a film mixing thriller and romance with Yvan Attal and Sophie Marceau – a remake project has been launched in the United States. Renamed The Tourist, it is directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – Oscar winner four years earlier for the masterpiece The Lives of Others -, with stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in the main roles.
Suffice to say that the expectation is great. With a budget of 100 million dollars, the feature film created a surprise by generating more than 278 million dollars in revenue worldwide. But the bellows falls quickly. The public’s verdict is final: The Tourist is only a pale copy of the original, the script is very far from it, the staging is sloppy and even the actors are bad. On AlloCiné, it is indeed one of the films with the lowest ratings by Internet users among the filmography of Johnny Depp.
The fault, perhaps, has a laborious production, shaken by numerous changes of directors (Lasse Hallström, then Bharat Nalluri were attached to the project) and castings. Sam Worthington was indeed at the origin of the temporary resignation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck due to artistic differences, before he retired from the distribution. Returning to his post, the German filmmaker re-wrote the screenplay in two weeks, then hired Johnny Depp to replace him. A choice that forced him to complete the filming in 58 days in order to free the actor for that of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Fountain of Youth.
The Tourist by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck with Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Timothy Dalton…
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Tonight on CStar at 9:10 p.m.