Oct 2 2008Hayden Christensen Signed to Act Wooden in Three Movies
You're hanging out with your friends. You're all bored, looking for something to do. Someone thinks it might fun to watch those newer Star Warses again; someone else suggests you get some beer. You're having a good time, tossing a few back--next thing you know, you're waking up next to a vomit-covered three-picture contract you apparently signed with Hayden Christensen, and you're like, "Man, when did we do that?"
It happened to Clint Culpepper, and it can happen to you (provided you, like Culpepper, are president of a film studio):
Screen Gems has made a three-picture deal with Hayden Christensen.The deal adds two more pictures to the thesp's Screen Gems slate, following "Bone Deep," the John Luessenhop-directed crime drama that began lensing in September.
Pact calls for Christensen to bring the studio projects that he finds with Tove Christensen, his brother and partner in Forest Park Pictures.
"Hayden is a very talented and versatile actor with a proven worldwide box office history," Culpepper said.
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that.
Reader Comments
1. AJness - October 2, 2008 3:58 PM
Hayden Christensen is the worst actor ever.
2. lunch lady - October 2, 2008 4:12 PM
Wow. I want to know what asshole decided it would be a good idea to form a contraction for the word "thespian."
3. flafel - October 2, 2008 4:30 PM
I played the refrigerator in my 5th grade play!
ha, sucks with him!
4. jecka - October 2, 2008 4:44 PM
hey, i liked him in the super cheesey, soap drama-y show, Higher Ground. but then again, i like seeing him cry like a little bitch.
5. TheTroof - October 2, 2008 4:59 PM
For the love of all that is holy, I pray these movies lose so much money that he will be blacklisted for the rest of eternity. Who actually likes this guy???
6. Elmo - October 2, 2008 5:07 PM
I thought he was kinda cute in Star Wars..
I actually haven't seen him in anything else though
he can't be THAT bad...
7. mtk - October 2, 2008 5:47 PM
He was good in "Shattered Glass"...
8. TetraShiva - October 2, 2008 7:55 PM
The plural of Star Wars is Star Wars, right?
At any rate, he was okay in Jumper - sucked in the new Star Warseseses.
9. Eddy - October 2, 2008 8:40 PM
He was okay in Shattered Glass. Good is probably a bit much. However, I find it hilarious that all of his projects are with his brother producing them (nothing speaks to good acting like not being able to get a job without brother dearest.)
10. lexie - October 2, 2008 10:10 PM
His brother was only a producer on one movie. That one being Shattered Glass.
Congrats to Hayden. I always enjoy his movies. Put him with a good director and a good ensemble cast and he's good. Life as a House was a good performance from Hayden.
11. lalauren - October 2, 2008 11:27 PM
Wait, why has Variety forsaken definite articles like "the"? Is "the" really such an affront to language that they have decided to boycott word? Horror!
12. Morris - October 3, 2008 9:33 AM
"Bone Deep" sounds like a gay porn to me...
13. hayden christensen - October 3, 2008 1:28 PM
Aw, don't be a hater. He isn't THAT bad. Well, in Star Wars I admit Leo would've been better and he was a bit flat but in Factory Girl and Shattered Glass he showed some genuine talent. It really depends upon the role.
14. The Observer - October 3, 2008 2:30 PM
He actually acted very well in every movie he's been in besides Star Wars.
The same could be said about Ewan McGregor and, uh, the guy who played Qui-Gon.
Seems more like a directorial problem to me...