Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig bound for Broadway - Post
Don’t call it “James Bond Meets Wolverine.”
Yet that’s what’s likely to happen in the fall if the Post scoop is correct that Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman have signed on to co-star in a new Broadway play.
The drama “A Steady Rain” was written by Keith Huff and deals with two Chicago cops whose friendship is tested after one of them has apparently done wrong during a domestic dispute call.
The play was staged by the Chicago Dramatists in 2007. The synopsis from that production:
During a routine domestic disturbance call, two seasoned policemen return a panic-stricken Vietnamese boy to a man claiming to be the boy’s uncle. When the man is revealed to be a cannibalistic serial killer and the Vietnamese boy his latest victim, a lifelong friendship is put to the test when one of the two has to take the fall for the screw up.
See Huffington Post for a January video clip of playwright Huff on “The Interview Show,” talking about the possibility of Broadway. The clip ends with Huff answering a question about the producers looking for big-name stars for the Broadway production: “I think it would be kinda cool to see Daniel Craig do it. My wife would be happy,” Huff says.
Craig would be making his New York stage debut, though Jackman was a big hit — and won the Tony — in 2004 for his role as Peter Allen in “The Boy From Oz.”
Barbara Broccoli, who has produced a number of James Bond films since 1995, will produce “A Steady Rain” on Broadway, according to the Post. A theater has not yet been selected.
