Christian Bale is in talks to play a ‘salvage consultant’ in the 1960s: eh?

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Here are some photos of Christian Bale out and about with his family from the end of June. His wife Sibi is knocked up – there’s like a nine-year split between their first child, Emmeline, and this baby. I always think it’s interesting when parents do that, when they have that big of an age gap between siblings. I imagine it works out pretty well – less competition between siblings and the older sibling takes on more of a parental role to the younger sibling.

Anyway, there’s some Bale news going around, so let’s get to it. Bale is in talks to play some kind of salvage expert/hustler and lady’s man:

Christian Bale is in early talks to star as Travis McGee in Fox’s adaptation of “The Deep Blue Goodbye.” While there is no official offer, Bale has agreed to come on to star, and an offer should be coming shortly. James Mangold just closed his deal to direct with Chernin Entertainment, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson-Killoran producing for Appian Way along with Amy Robinson.

Written by John D. MacDonald in 1964, the book is the first in a series of 21 that followed McGee, a self-described “salvage consultant” who recovers others’ property for a fee and along the way gets into trouble fighting bad guys and wooing women.

Dennis Lehane penned the script with Scott Frank working on the most recent draft. Bale, Fox and Chernin recently worked together on “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” which bows on Dec. 12.

[From Variety]

Will it be set in the 1960s? Because that might be interesting. If it’s set in the modern day, it’s just going to be like The History Channel’s American Pickers. Which, admittedly, is an AWESOME show. I get stuck on American Pickers marathons all the time! (Like last night.)

And finally, the trailer for Exodus: Gods and Kings was released last week. Christian Bale as Moses? Eh. But I am interested in this because Ridley Scott directed it. You know it will be visually interesting, at the very least.

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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

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  1. MrsBPitt says:

    You know, somtimes its not a choice to wait a long time between kids…sometimes it just doesn’t happen. I have friends that easily had a first baby and then tried for years to have another and it never happened. Then I have friends that had a baby, tried for years for another, gave up, and four years later, BINGO, got pregnant…

    As for the trailer…meh…I’m not that interested…

    • Scarlet Vixen says:

      +1 Sometimes a large age gap isn’t planned. It certainly wasn’t in my family-two of my brothers are 7 & 14yrs older than me because my mum had a couple miscarriages in between having my brothers, and I was a total “I thought I was too old to get pregnant” oops baby when my parents were in their 40s.

      And, my brother who’s 7yrs older did NOT take a ‘parental’ role. LOL When he wasn’t ignoring me he was teasing me incessantly and/or beating the crap out of me. We didn’t get along until we were both adults. I bet a much older sister will act like a lil mama tho.

    • nicegirl says:

      My children are almost 9 years apart – 2 boys, and it is wonderful. They are now almost 16 (tomorrow!) and 7, and apart from the usual sibling irritations, they are pretty great together. They are far enough apart in age that they do not fight over stuff or parental attention and are very supportive of each others activities. The younger one does seek the attention of his big brother a lot, but they each kinda love it. It is my hope they have a strong connection in adulthood, when I expect they might need each other, and will enjoy raising their families together. HOPE HOPE HOPE

  2. Abbott says:

    Tried to get through the Wiki description of American Pickers but my eyes glazed over like Halle Berry’s Storm. I’m guessing it’s Storage Wars meets Dog the Bounty Hunter featuring less voicemail outrage?

    • Sixer says:

      No; it’s noirish crime. The character is an investigator really. The ‘salvage consultant’ is just an angle.

    • Amberica says:

      Exactly what I was going to say. My kid is almost 8. Been trying for 4 years and nada.

  3. jinni says:

    Why is the whole Egyptian royal family white, like Anglo Caucasian white? They couldn’t even find some Caucasian actors from the Middle East or of North African descent to play these roles? I’m not even asking for black actors because I know that would never happen. Ugh, Hollywood.

    Why if Moses was suppose to be raised in the house of Pharaoh does he dress so different than all the other Egyptian royal family? Bale look like he’s dressed for some random ancient historical drama fantasy movie while Edgerton actually looks like he belongs in ancient Egypt.

    Anyway the movie looks lame, nothing can beat Prince of Egypt ( the cartoon movie) and a special shout out to the Ten Commandments but only because Yul Brynner and the dude who played Josuha looked hot in it.

    • QQ says:

      UGH! Ok?!? Wtf is that! It looks like pure f*kery…. at least they left the slaves black? Which… i cant even…. Moses and Pharaoh were two white dudes in fairly modern glittery styles speaking plain modern day English..sure

    • lucy2 says:

      I have seen a number of articles and comments on the white washing of yet another film, and it is troublesome. (I’ll still see it because I love Bale’s work though).

  4. Sixer says:

    Aww. Those books are classics! No Travis McGee, no Elmore Leonard, arguably. I hope it’s good. Wasn’t Oliver Stone going to do this?

  5. Lucy2 says:

    I will watch Bale in ANYTHING, but Exodus does look visually interesting too. Never heard of that series, but if he’s signing on I’m guessing it’s a good character.

  6. FLORC says:

    Bale loves his dirty roles. Rusted, gritty, filthy environments and characters.
    The (barely) 1 exception being American Psycho, but even there he was incredibly violent and nothing stayed too clean for too long.

  7. mkyarwood says:

    He’s usually pretty savvy about his role choices. I really liked him the The Most Boring Movie ever, the 310 to Yuma adaptation. Could be interesting, or it could be an ‘easy’ choice with his next kiddo on the way. We waited five years between pregnancies, though we started ‘trying’ again when kiddo 1 was age 4. I had 5 miscarriages in that time… they could have tried before then stopped because of his Batman schedule and obvious temper issues that were flaring up at the time.

  8. Lilacflowers says:

    Dennis Lehane script? I’m there. Will Christian be coming back to Boston for this one? He might as well buy a house here.

  9. GoogleyEyes says:

    Ugh why is he playing Moses?! He’s ruining my favorite bible story. He soooo does not look like he’s from the Middle East. There are too many available actors in Hollywood that they could’ve casted for this movie. It look like everyone’s in a Halloween costume pretending to be from the Old Testament. No one looks Israelite or Egyptian.

    I juz ugh I used to love Christian Bale til I stood next to him on a crosswalk. Right when I realized who he was, he gave me the meanest glare “don’t you dare talk to me or even let people know who i am.” Get over urself dude. I’ve helped Tom Hanks (used to be a grocery cashier) and he was the kindest man, even telling me a story about how he knew his wife was the one (uh duh Tom I know who Rita is!!).

    • Lydia says:

      Yeah, I believe it. I haven’t heard good things about Bale with regards to fans.