Hollywood careers that just ended abruptly

wally79 wrote: »

Would have liked to see him as jack reacher rather than cruise

Danny deVito rather than Cruise would have been an improvement,

saabsaab wrote: »

What happened to Colin Farrell? Not been in much recently.

gentlemen was an excellent movie

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

gentlemen was an excellent movie

Watched about an hour and forgot to get back to it, Hugh Grant was sleazeball act quite funny

gmisk

wally79 wrote: »

Would have liked to see him as jack reacher rather than cruise

They guy they have cast for the tv show looks the part Alan Ritchson

gmisk

RandomViewer wrote: »

Clive Owen ,tipped for big things but never really got there, good actor

I don't think he has disappeared at all, but yeah his career never really took off despite some cracking films like children of men.
Interesting to see him in the new Ryan Murphy show playing Bill Clinton!

RandomViewer wrote: »

Watched about an hour and forgot to get back to it, Hugh Grant was sleazeball act quite funny

he was a brilliant sleazeball, hard to know if we was gay or straight or psycho hardman!

weldoninhio

saabsaab wrote: »

What happened to Colin Farrell? Not been in much recently.

Was in The Gentlemen, one of the best films of 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyzrBzzrcK0

gmisk wrote: »

They guy they have cast for the tv show looks the part Alan Ritchson

Big enough anyway,

Morathi

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

gentlemen was an excellent movie

Agreed, hit so many brilliant notes, recommended if anyone is on the fence.

Praetorian22

Hmmmmm fantastic thread by the way, gets you thinking!

Many of the below are still active, so nobody's career really ended "abruptly" and some of the below names are off course debatable.

I'm thinking along the lines of Major roles no longer being a thing for.............

Steven Seagal, Rick Moranis, William Petersenm, Danny Glover, Gary Busey John Cusack, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Freddie Prinze Jr, Chazz Palminteri, Vinnie Jones.... Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Cuba Gooding Jr, Val Kilmer, Billy Zane, Ted Levine, Kevin Gage

and I suppose in Straight to DVD terms in theory you could even add Bruce Willis in there!

Some of the above are great actors still

"edited" + a decent portion of the Prison Break / Lost Cast

Minime2.5

Sam Worthington was supposed to be the next big thing but I dont see him in anything anymore. Hes supposed to be in the Avatar sequels if they ever get made

Praetorian22 wrote: »

Hmmmmm fantastic thread by the way, gets you thinking!

Many of the below are still active, so nobody's career really ended "abruptly" and some of the below names are off course debatable.

I'm thinking along the lines of Major roles no longer being a thing for.............

Steven Seagal, Rick Moranis, William Petersenm, Danny Glover, Gary Busey John Cusack, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Freddie Prinze Jr, Chazz Palminteri, Vinnie Jones.... Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Cuba Gooding Jr, Val Kilmer, Billy Zane, Ted Levine, Kevin Gage

and I suppose in Straight to DVD terms in theory you could even add Bruce Willis in there!

Some of the above are great actors still

"edited" + a decent portion of the Prison Break / Lost Cast

Steven Seagal, where do you start?

RandomViewer wrote: »

Clive Owen ,tipped for big things but never really got there, good actor

I believe Clive Owen was linked to James Bond also

RandomViewer wrote: »

Steven Seagal, where do you start?

Anyone go to his dinner and speech in Dublin last year ?

flazio

Anyone remember Denise Richards? Heck are any of the Bond girls still working (Michelle Yeoh has been hamming it up on Star Trek Discovery, that's all I can think of)
John Cusack has been mentioned but what about Joan Cusack?
Last I heard from her was a voice in Netflixs brilliant Christmas warmer "Klaus"

flazio wrote: »

Anyone remember Denise Richards? Heck are any of the Bond girls still working (Michelle Yeoh has been hamming it up on Star Trek Discovery, that's all I can think of)
John Cusack has been mentioned but what about Joan Cusack?
Last I heard from her was a voice in Netflixs brilliant Christmas warmer "Klaus"

"I'm having Christmas in Turkey"

flazio wrote: »

Anyone remember Denise Richards? Heck are any of the Bond girls still working (Michelle Yeoh has been hamming it up on Star Trek Discovery, that's all I can think of)
John Cusack has been mentioned but what about Joan Cusack?
Last I heard from her was a voice in Netflixs brilliant Christmas warmer "Klaus"

Denise married Charlie Sheen become one of the Real Housewives and ended up on a US soap opera

Wedwood

On a slightly different angle, where have all the proper A list movie stars gone ? There’s virtually no movie stars today who you would go to a movie on their star power alone.

Every decade since movies began have had mega stars who had movies built around them, but virtually nothing like that since the turn of the century.

Examples:
30s/40s James Cagney, Humphrey Bogarde, Cary Grant
50s/60s John Wayne, Katherine Hepburn, Marlon Brando
70s/80/s Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford

The closest modern equivalent I can think of is Tom Hanks, but you could argue he’s part of the gang of fading stars from the 70s/80s/90s which include Stallone/Swarzenegger/Roberts/Nicholson etc.

I can’t think of any movie actor or actress under the age of 40 who’s next movie I’m waiting to see.

Agent Coulson wrote: »

A lot of actor take TV gigs because is regular work with a regular pay check.
For every actor that has smash hit movie or two there are thousands that don't.
If you are just making films you might do 1 maybe 2 a year if you are lucky for not great money TV offers you security and an off season that you might be able to fit a film into it.

Winona Ryder got a comeback with Stranger Things on tv, she was off the radar for a while

scruff monkey

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Winona Ryder got a comeback with Stranger Things on tv, she was off the radar for a while

She had been doing bits here and there incl a high profile cameo as Spocks mothers in the rebooted Trek movie franchise.

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Wedwood wrote: »

On a slightly different angle, where have all the proper A list movie stars gone ? There’s virtually no movie stars today who you would go to a movie on their star power alone.

Every decade since movies began have had mega stars who had movies built around them, but virtually nothing like that since the turn of the century.

Examples:
30s/40s James Cagney, Humphrey Bogarde, Cary Grant
50s/60s John Wayne, Katherine Hepburn, Marlon Brando
70s/80/s Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford

The closest modern equivalent I can think of is Tom Hanks, but you could argue he’s part of the gang of fading stars from the 70s/80s/90s which include Stallone/Swarzenegger/Roberts/Nicholson etc.

I can’t think of any movie actor or actress under the age of 40 who’s next movie I’m waiting to see.

That’s a good point.

Probably just too much content vying for viewers these days. All the star power to go around is diffused over hundreds of crappy streaming service films.

Morathi

I dunno if it's because I'm older, but I find myself looking forward to a specific director's next release rather than an actor's.

Like Denis Villeneauve, Tarrantino, or Wes Anderson.

Samsonsmasher wrote: »

Michael Fassbender starred in a string of box office failures such as Prometheus and Assassin's Creed. His performances were critically acclaimed but he never became a true star. He's was reduced to starring in Kung Fury 2.
The pandemic has destroyed the entertainment industry and it could be all over for Hollywood.

He is one of best working actors of this generation imho

CastorTroy

The Rock seems to be the biggest name in that regard these days where you have a good idea of what you're going to get when you go see a film with him in it.

CastorTroy wrote: »

The Rock seems to be the biggest name in that regard these days where you have a good idea of what you're going to get when you go see a film with him in it.

Money wise he is box office gold

The Inbetween is mine

Baywatch is actually considered a financial flop despite taking approx $175 million..not everything The Rock touches turns to gold

dubstepper

Wedwood wrote: »

Examples:
30s/40s James Cagney, Humphrey Bogarde, Cary Grant
50s/60s John Wayne, Katherine Hepburn, Marlon Brando
70s/80/s Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford

I can’t think of any movie actor or actress under the age of 40 who’s next movie I’m waiting to see.

I would say an equivalent is Leo DiCaprio. Over 40, but so were some of the actors you mentioned in your list. He hardly puts a foot wrong on movie choices.

weldoninhio

dubstepper wrote: »

I would say an equivalent is Leo DiCaprio. Over 40, but so were some of the actors you mentioned in your list. He hardly puts a foot wrong on movie choices.

Denzel Washington's movies are generally decent too.

the_pen_turner

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