Goodbye, Sam Worthington, Hello, Tom Hardy for This Means War
Tue, July 27, 2010 
This Means War just lost and gained its remaining uncast leading role – all in one article!
Vulture reports Sam Worthington (who’d been offered the chance to co-star in the McG-directed action/comedy next to Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon) said "Thanks, but no thanks." The Aussie actor is already booked as is with Avatar and Clash of the Titans sequel in the near-future. Plus, it just doesn't that good. Something collecting dust since the late 90s can’t be the best project, can it?
In his place, the studio has closed a deal with Tom Hardy or as many of you know him as Eames, the "cool guy" from Inception. He'll be better known by audiences as the new Mad Max once the first of the planned two-new films hits in 2012. Great character character-actor, of course, but can he do comedy?
The film sees two spies/roommates/BFFs (Pine and Hardy) waging war against one another over the affections of their new tenant (Witherspoon).
Considering that Pine is also booked (He’ll film the Star Trek sequel next summer and last we heard on the Jack Ryan reboot Moscow, production might commence this Spring), I'm assuming production should be starting up in the next couple of months.
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