He has hardly been working in the last decade, his last leading role was in stone (2010).
Motherless Brooklyn is a film I am looking forward to but he wrote it and directed it so he's probably the driving force behind it.
I know he always had a reputation of being difficult.
So has he been blacklisted after they replaced him with mark ruffalo?
He bailed.
shareI think people just got tired of dealing with him, though he's an excellent actor.
shareIn my view the whole Hollywood "blacklisted" or "blackballing" is just a fear tactic/partial myth to make any elitist interpretations of producers/the rich and "powerful" seem scarier or such.
Not saying one can't do wrong and have it affect their careers, but most "blackballed actors" are just actors who don't want to do much/any more work -- or struggle (which many do anyways).
This especially makes no sense with mega celebrities. Do you think blackballing or blacklisting would affect people of those ranks? Some giant actors are richer and more resourceful than many producers even and can produce their own work with themselves on the big screen if they wish. Even small, more ordinary salaried people can produce some of their own work (low budget). It would be unlikely that -- especially big celebrities -- would be "banned" from acting or such. It might only have more weight on non-celebrities and even then it is exaggerated usually.
This is just a way to probably paint the "big dogs" in Hollywood as more fierce and dominant/evil than what people would seem and make them look "scarier."
Also the whole "blackball" aspect makes it more likened to a "secret handshake" club/illuminati kind of stuff, which is also seemingly just conspiracies and such from what I know.
The talented directors certainly don't work with him anymore.
So it's either the directors or the producers or both. If fincher wanted to work with him again he would make that happen but he doesn't.
And do you really think Norton will put 20 million dollars of his own money to make a movie?
He himself also can't decide whether to release a film or not, you need a distribution network, doesn't matter if you are somewhat of a celebrity.
It's a shame what happened to his career, primal fear, rounders, ahx, fight club, 25th hour, all great films, even the score was entertaining. Now the best he's been offered in the last 3 years is some small role in a sentimental Will Smith dramedy. The Norton in 2000 would never decide to do a role like that, only logical explanation is that he's not offered anything better.
Well, first thing is that every movie doesn't require 20 million to make. You're thinking of big ticket, mega productions at that point and up.
I mentioned that there can be effects on acting based on relations/etc., but more so that there is no evil blackballing effect that is wiping out actors or banishing them from the industry in one fell swoop.
It could be true that there isn't much better being offered. There are several known big actors that are just in the remains of shadows now and never were blackballed. I don't think not appearing in big productions necessarily means you're barred -- more so you're just not getting them.
Every movie doesn't have every A list actor in every cast somehow -- that would be impossible. Sometimes big actors do smaller roles because they can't get bigger ones anymore -- and sometimes they may not mind either.
My real point was just to show that the idea of blacklisting is mostly exaggeration and limitations/constraints/time/circumstances can affect whether current mega celebrities and such remain appearing in massive productions and such.
It isn't usually some big web of conspiracies surrounding why some former big names don't appear in much anymore -- often they just don't fit many roles anymore or don't want to be in as much stuff as often/more selective/etc.
The talented directors certainly don't work with him anymore.
i like him, he is smart
shareHe's very difficult to work with. I'm sure the bigger studios don't want to bother hiring him. He was never gonna be a team player over at camp Disney. It ain't just making the movies. After you gotta go out and plug them things, do the con circuit and all that nonsense. Smile and wave a lot. That ain't Ed.
shareThat's the price for being an ass. Ed Norton is notorious for being difficult and Hulk was terrible anyway. Mark Ruffalo is way better at being Hulk. Even Eric Bana was better.
shareAs good as he is I've read several articles about his crabby behavior...there are other equal talents who can fill up roles who wont be demanding pains in the ass
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