Sam Worthington is quickly becoming the new Leonardo DiCaprio. Wait, wait, don’t throw tomatoes yet, we mean that insofar as the actor is quickly amassing a litany of projects and who knows when he’ll get to all of them? He’s attached himself to “Quartermain” “Dracula Year Zero,” “This Means War” “The Candidate,” “Clash Of The Titans 2,” and more.
Now, he’s officially signed on for “Dan Dare” a project that was first announced in March.
The Warner Bros. project is based on the titular British science fiction comic hero (called the British Buck Rodgers), who originally appeared in The Eagle in 1950, and has gone through a variety of incarnations, including a Dave Gibbons-drawn, punk-inspired version set in 2000 AD in the 1970s, and more recently a reboot for Virgin Comics by “Preacher”/”The Boys” scribe Garth Ennis.
Worthington is attached, but it’s unclear when he’ll actually appear in it. There’s no writer or director attached and “Clash of The Titans 2” looks like it will shoot in early 2011. Add to the pile, we guess.
We’re also hearing he’s on WB/Legendary’s meaningless wish list of actors for “Superman: The Man Of Steel,” but those are just lists that every top actor is always apart of (Bradley Cooper is on it too). It sounds like an unknown is the way they’re going to go if the rumors prove to be correct.