Brazilian journalist Rodrigo Salem from SET Magazine, the biggest movie magazine in Brazil, went to New York to work on the LOTR junket and talked a bit to Sean Astin about his upcoming projects. That interview has now finally hit shelves and reveals the former hobbit is keen on helming a certain superhero movie Fox is having difficulty finding a director for. Here's a transcript, courtesy of AGalaxia who've scanned the page:
<b>Question</b>: You were highly praised over your short movie The Long and Short of It which is in The Two Towers DVD. Do you have any plans of directing something bigger?
<strong>Sean Astin</strong>: Oh, yeah! I always wanted to act and direct with the same intensity but only now I've found the way to get to directing. Right now I'm running to be the director of this US$ 100, US$130 million movie which the studio wants to release in the end of 2004 and it has a huge effect in pop culture. I got a meeting scheduled but I can't talk about it yet.
Question: Is it a comic book adaptation?
Sean Astin: You figured it out, huh?
Question: You're running for the director's chair of Fantastic Four, right?
Sean Astin: Yes.
Question: You've got some pretty heavy competition ahead of you. I heard Steven Soderbergh is interested and that he was offered the job by the studio specially because he could bring George Clooney as Reed Richards.
Sean Astin: Yeah but I'm a friend of George Clooney too (laughs). I think he would make a perfect Reed Richards.
Question: And who would be your Human Torch?
Sean Astin: Oh, he's right over there. Orlando Bloom.
Food for thought.Thanks to 'Gelogurte'
