In this time of 140-character limited pearls of wisdom and 5-picture deals drawn up for those not even three times as old the number of pictures they’ve been dealt, it feels like it’s taken a long time for Justin Timberlake to become the movie star we all keep expecting him to become.
With the surprising success of Bad Teacher, the critical prowess/thespian street cred that came with The Social Network, the wide appeal of a rom-com (Friends With Benefits) and the upcoming In Time, a sci-fi genre film from Andrew Niccol (a.k.a. the guy who gave us Gattaca and wrote The Truman Show), the boy band star-turned solo star-turned resident emcee-turned SNL funnyman-turned strange character actor (Black Snake Moan, Southland Tales) will have nearly every corner of the entertainment market corned. And if he doesn’t than dammit, who does?
But wait, there’s more! Timberlake is set up at Warner Bros. to star in Fully Automatic, producer Joel Silver‘s long-gestating buddy cop potential franchise-starter. This comes on the heels of news that fellow music star Mark Wahlberg will star alongside Jonah Hill in Good Time Gang for the independent RCR Pictures, who hope to begin another Lethal Weapon. The Brothers’ Warner hope the same thing with Fully Automatic and Timberlake.
The plot concerns “two rookie cops out who team up with a female former Delta Force operative to stop a mercenary who has stolen a cache of weapons” [The Playlist].
Hey, we never said Timberlake was the best judge of material. See The Love Guru.
Do you like Timberlake as an actor?